![Supporting Postsecondary Educators to Develop Assessments for Student Learning Based on Backward Design](https://www.terc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Pub_Article_feature_v1.jpg)
This article looks at how two postsecondary educators changed their courses after attending an assessment workshop that emphasized the use of “backward design” for course planning and alignment. It also discusses next research steps needed to support educators in designing fair undergraduate assessments and courses.
Score:![ExIST](https://www.terc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/TERC_Es-e1572285706189.jpg)
The ExIST Project is a teacher professional development model that supports middle school biology teachers to adapt curriculum by integrating game design to enhance biological systems learning and skills in systems thinking from constructionist and participatory perspectives.
Score:![MPACT](https://www.terc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/MPACT_Project_TERC.jpg)
MPACT provides opportunities for students to engage in computational thinking, spatial reasoning, and mathematical concepts through design and hands-on making projects.
Score:![Exploring Students’ Data Science Learning and Participation through Engagement with Authentic, Messy Data at DataFest](https://www.terc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/TERC_Es-e1572285706189.jpg)
This project explores how students engage with messy, authentic data in interdisciplinary ways and what influences their choices to participate at DataFest.
Score:![REU Summer TERC Scholars Program](https://www.terc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/0.jpg)
Summer TERC Scholars Program: STEM Education Research through a Social Justice Lens (SJL)A Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
Conduct an independent STEM education research project this summer with TERC! Each project will have a particular focus on fostering equity in STEM and STEM education and enhancing transformative social justice.
As part of an eight-student cohort, SJL interns will be mentored by TERC principal investigators and their project teams. SJL interns can expect to:
receive training on essential education research methodologies
encounter and address critical issues and perspectives of social justice in STEM and education
receive professional development training to support pathways to graduate school, » Read more
Score:![Photograph Collection Showcases the Experiences of Native Students and Professionals in STEM](https://www.terc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/RG-TheCui-uiEaters-scaled.jpg)
A collection of photographs created by Native students and professionals features supports and barriers they experience in STEM. The exhibition is part of an NSF-funded study that also includes quotes by participants to contextualize the images.
Score:![AugmentedEF](https://www.terc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AugEF_girl_vrGlasses.jpg)
Using augmented reality tools to help students with executive function issues attend to STEM related tasks.
Score:![Investigations authors will be presenting at NCTM on September 29th and 30th.](https://www.terc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/product_investigations.jpg)
Don’t miss these informative session.
Score:![The Cesar Chavez Foundation and TERC Announce their New Program, AMPD4Math, that draws on students’ desire to help others.](https://www.terc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AMPD4Math_featuredimage.jpg)
The Cesar Chavez Foundation and TERC organizations will work with youth and afterschool leaders in partnership with Riverside County Office of Education and Merced City School District in California, to co-design afterschool projects that draw on students’ desire to help others while growing positive identities as mathematics learners — with the ultimate goal of reaching 100,000 students across the Southwestern U.S.
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