By Scott Burg and Alex Gurn, Ph.D. Rockman et al recently completed a research study examining classroom pedagogy connected to and inspired by KQED Teach, an online learning platform about teaching with digital media. As a core component of KQED’s educational programs, KQED Teach helps teachers meet the rapidly evolving digital media needs of today’s […]

By Julia Li, Ph.D. Rockman et al (REA) recently served as the external evaluator on the NSF-sponsored project “A Massive Open Online Platform for Language Learning Content” (No. 1632488), aimed at studying the impact of Speak Agent, an academic language acquisition tool, on science language development for elementary students with variable English language proficiency. This […]

by Alex Gurn and Camellia Sanford-Dolly Rockman et al (REA) recently completed an external evaluation of the National Science Foundation–funded project, Situating Big Data: Assessing Game-Based STEM Learning in Context. The project was a collaboration between three research teams (two at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and one at Arizona State University) around a shared dataset […]

By Nisaa Kirtman In this post, we wanted to hi-light lessons learned in our evaluation report on a large-scale professional development program, Institutional Change through Faculty Advancement in Instruction and Mentoring (ICFAIM) at Jackson State University (JSU), an NSF-funded implementation project. This program builds on two previous PD models, Mississippi Academy for Science Teaching, (Project […]

By Jennifer Borland and Camellia Sanford-Dolly Over the last decade, Rockman et al has led several studies to independently evaluate Ready to Learn (RTL) programming, both formatively and summatively. We were pleased to learn that some of our evaluation work contributed to a comprehensive meta-analysis of research on Ready to Learn programming recently published in […]