Papers and Abstracts

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Contract Number REC-9912177: Task 10 (B1403X), awarded to Temple University/Institute for Survey Research. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in both the session abstracts and final papers are those of the author(s) and meeting participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Keynote Address

• Teaching for Successful Intelligence

Final Session Summaries

• Scientific Principles for Education Research: What Counts As Evidence?
• Design Experiments: Promise vs. Delivery
• Developing a Psychology of Test Design
• Equity, Diversity, and Retention: Using concepts of equity to achieve diversity by increasing the retention of women and underrepresented minorities in the science and engineering pipeline
• Integration of Research and Practice
• Is Education Research Inherently Value-Laden? Working with messy epistemologies and conflicting implicit goals
• Learning Styles: Final Paper
• Summary of the Panel on Issues Related to Obtaining Impact from NSF Studies of STEM Education
• Tailoring Undergraduate Instruction to Meet Individual Student Needs
• Technology and Assessment
• Understanding the Process of Mathematics Learning
• What Do Teachers Need to Know?
• Linking Classroom and Large-Scale Assessments
• Simulations and Visualizations: Issues for REC

Session Abstracts

• Understanding the Process of Mathematics Learning
• Design Experiments: Promise vs. Delivery
• Dissemination and the Integration of Research into Practice
• Linking Classroom Assessments to Standardized State and National Tests
• Developing a Psychological Theory of Test Design For Educational Achievement Tests
• What Do Teachers Need to Know?
• What is the Role of New Technologies in Student Assessment?
• Is Education Research Inherently Value-Laden? Implications for Epistemology and Expectations
• Scientific Principles for Education Research: What Counts as Evidence?
• Tailoring Undergraduate Instruction to Individual Student Needs
• Equity, Diversity, and Retention: Using concepts of equity to achieve diversity by increasing the retention of women and underrepresented minorities in the science and engineering pipeline
• Science, Vision, or Advocacy? Who Shapes the Future of Education Technology?
• How to conduct research and release results to raise good education issues to a broad audience?
• Learning Styles: What is a Learning Style? What Does it Matter?

Additional Papers

• Summary Highlights of the Principal Investigators’ Meeting, January 11–12, 2001 (PDF File 513 Kb)
• Summary Highlights of the Second Annual Meeting for Principal Investigators of Studies of Systemic Initiatives, January 10, 2001 (PDF File 77 Kb)