Publications

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Through long-term partnerships with schools, districts, and community organizations, The Learning Partnership collaboratively engages in rigorous research that both informs solutions and contributes to educational theory. This section provides an archive of The Learning Partnership's publications. The publications can be filtered by partnership, research area, author, keyword, and type.

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Title
Type
Date

Using the Science of Hurricane Resilience to Foster the Development of Student Understanding and Appreciation for Science in Puerto Rico

This paper describes a study of the implementation of Journey to El Yunque in Puerto Rico. The results provide evidence that engaging students in the practices of ecology predicted increased understanding of population dynamics.
Conference
Mar 2022

Scaffolding Scientific Argumentation in a Science Inquiry Unit

Teachers implemented a scaffold for supporting evaluating and sorting of evidence. The Evidence Sorter helps students make more evidence-reasoning connections in the evidence-sorter tool, which led to increased use of reasoning in the final essay.
Conference
Mar 2022

Becoming through Being: Dewey’s Relevance to Educating for the Future of Work

In this chapter, the authors apply John Dewey's philosophy to critique modern standards-based reform movements and outline how Dewey's philosophy can help us reorient our educational aims to prepare students for the future of work.
Chapter
Jan 2022

Qubit by Qubit’s Four-Week Quantum Computing Summer School Evaluation Report for 2021

This report details the findings from Qubit by Qubit's Quantum Computing Summer School in Summer of 2021, including increased knowledge regarding quantum computing anan increase in expectancy of being successful in quantum computing.
Report
Sep 2021

Exploring ECS Teacher Persistence and Attrition in Chicago Public Schools

The authors analyzed factors that predict teacher persistence in teaching Exploring Computer Science from the 2016 to 2020 school years. The authors found that an important factor was active participation in the ECS professional development program.
Report
Aug 2021

Qubit by Qubit’s Middle School Quantum Camp Evaluation Report for Summer 2021

This report details the findings from Qubit by Qubit's Middle School Quantum Camp in Summer of 2021, including increased participant knowledge, student motivation increase, and student interest in STEM and quantum computing.
Report
Aug 2021

Assessing computational thinking: an overview of the field

Steven McGee was part of an editorial team for a special issue on assessing computation thinking. This article is the editorial and overview of the special issue.
Article
May 2021

Research-Practice Partnership Strategies to Conduct and Use Research to Inform Practice

This study examines the collaborative processes that CAFÉCS uses to conduct and use research.
Conference
Apr 2021

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