research

Nov 6, 2019

Crowdsourcing Science

Friday Institute Faculty Fellow Gail Jones surveyed citizen scientists and science hobbyists across the country, discovering the lack of diversity in these communities. 

Oct 31, 2019

NSF Grant Will Broaden Project-Based Inquiry (PBI) Global to Include STEM Learning Through An NC Rural/Urban School Partnership

Hiller Spires and Erin Krupa have been awarded a two-year, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to expand Project Based Inquiry (PBI) Global to address STEM learning. 

Oct 17, 2019

STEM Education Researchers Gather at National Summit to Explore Next Big Ideas, Questions in STEM Education

When University of Cincinnati faculty were surveyed in 2011 and asked what they thought STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) was, only 57% could identify all parts of the acronym,… 

Jun 26, 2019

HI-RiSE Spring 2019 Updates

Hi-RISE graduate students at the NCTM conference in San Diego, CA. The HI-RiSE team has been busy this past Spring presenting and attending local and national conferences. During these conferences… 

May 3, 2019

IES Director Highlights Friday Institute MOOC-Eds in First-Year Report

In a recent report of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Director Mark Schneider’s first-year accomplishments, two of the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation’s Massive Open Online Courses for Educators (MOOC-Eds) were highlighted as examples of how IES’ Practice Guides are translated into practice. 

Apr 10, 2019

Ed Week: Two Ways to Add ‘Computational Thinking’ to Middle School Science

During AERA's annual conference, researchers from NC State University and the University of Colorado, Boulder, highlighted two pilot programs to use computational thinking to enhance standard science units. 

Apr 10, 2019

Ed Week: Can Learning Analytics Improve Learning? Researchers Discuss at AERA

At the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Dr. Mary Ann Wolf and other leaders in the field discussed questions about mining student data to help educators. 

Mar 26, 2019

Designing Our Partnership Path

On Friday, February 15, three groups of educators gathered at Centennial Campus Magnet Middle School (CCMMS) to discuss ways to foster and enrich their partnership. Staff and faculty from CCMMS,… 

Dec 6, 2018

New $1 Million Grant Will Support Broadening Participation in Computer Science and Computational Thinking

A team of faculty and researchers at NC State University were recently awarded a three-year $1 million National Science Foundation grant in collaboration with Wake County Schools, UNC-Charlotte and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools… 

Nov 24, 2018

HI-RiSE Fall 2018 Updates

One of the goals of the HI-RiSE team is to disseminate the work done by the team to as many audiences interested in statistics education as possible, and this Fall…