Commissioned Papers (By Project)

Review of the NOAA Education Program
1.	Review of NOAA Education Program Evaluation Reports	Ann Brackett
2.	Logic models of NOAA education programs and implications for restructuring	Bill Clune
3.	Learner Diversity in Earth System Science	Roger Levine, Raquel González, and Carmen Martínez-Sussmann
4.	Children and adults’ understanding of ocean and climate sciences	Lynn Tran

Learning Science in Informal Environments
1.	How Might Native Science Inform “Informal Science Learning?”	Bryan Brayboy and Angelina Castagno
2.	Diverse Learning and Learner Diversity in “Informal” Science Learning Environments	Shirley Brice Heath
3.	Assessing Learning in Informal Science Contexts	Michael Brody, Art Bangert and Justin Dillon
4.	Evaluation of Learning in Informal Learning Environments	Institute for Learning Innovation
5.	Lifelong Learning and Technology	Casey Lindberg, Edwin Carstensen, and Laura Carstensen
6.	Interest and Motivation in Informal Science Learning	K. Ann Renninger
7.	Media-based Learning Science in Informal Environments	Paul Rockman, Kristen Bass, Jennifer Borse
8.	Informal Science Learning in Afterschool Settings: A Natural Fit?	Sarah Schwartz and Gil Noam

Science Learning, K-8
1.	Formative Assessment in K-8 Science Education: A Conceptual Review	Erin Marie Furtak
2.	Informal Science Learning Environments: A Review of Research to Inform K-8 Schooling	Kirsten M. Ellenbogen and Reed Stevens
3.	Sociocultural Approaches to Learning Science in Classrooms	Ellice Forman and Wendy Sink
4.	The Development of Scientific Reasoning Skills: What Psychologist Contribute to an Understanding of Elementary Science Learning	Corinne Zimmerman

High School Science Laboratories
1.	The School Science Laboratory: Considerations of Learning, Technology, and Scientific Practice	Philip Bell
2.	The HS Lab Experience: Reconsidering the Role of Evidence, Explanation and the Language of Science	Richard Duschl
3.	Laboratories in Science Education: Understanding the History and Nature of Science	Jane Maienschein
4.	The Role of Practical Work in the Teaching and Learning of Science	Robin Millar

NASA’s Elementary and Secondary Education Program
1.	Summary and Critique of Selected Evaluations of NASA Educational Programs	Frances Lawrenz
2.	Alignment of the NASA Explorer School Model with Models for School Improvement and Reform	Susan Mundry
3.	A Review of the Literature and the INSPIRE Model STEM in Out-of-School Time	National Institute on Out-of-School Time, Wellesley College

	Title	Author
1.	Linking Evidence and Learning Goals	Susan Singer
2.	White Paper on Promising Practices in Undergraduate STEM Education	Jeffrey Froyd
3.	Practitioner Research as a Way of Knowing: A Case Study of Teacher Learning in Improving Undergraduates’ Concept Acquisition of Evolution by Natural Selection	Bruce Grant
4.	Learning Goals in Undergraduate STEM Education and Evidence for Achieving Them	Jose M. Mestre
5.	Chemistry in Context: Goals, Evidence, and Gaps (A White Paper)	Cathy Middlecamp
6.	Promising Practices in Undergraduate STEM Education	Jeanne L. Narum

	Title	Author
1.	Effectiveness of Problem-based learning	David Gijbels
2.	Case Pedagogy in Undergraduate STEM: Research We Have; Research We Need	Mary Lundeberg
3.	Use of Complex Problems in Teaching Physics	Tom Foster
4.	Concept Inventories in Higher Education Science	Julie Libarkin
5.	Concept Inventories in Engineering Education	Teri Reed-Rhoads
6.	Identifying And Addressing Student Conceptual Difficulties: An Example From Introductory Physics	Paula Heron
7.	The Rensselaer Studio Model for Learning and Teaching: What Have We Learned?	Karen Cummings
8.	The SCALE-UP Project: A Student-Centered Active Learning Environment for Undergraduate Programs	Robert Beichner
9.	Tracking student problem-solving strategies in online PBL case discussions: a method to target interventions to individuals and groups most in need of help.	Marcy Osgood
10.	Less talk, more action: Active Learning in Introductory Geoscience courses	David McConnell
11.	The Role of Undergraduate Research in Student Retention, Academic Engagement, and the Pursuit of Graduate Education	Sandy Gregerman
12.	Evaluation of the Center for Authentic Science Practice in Education (CASPiE) model of undergraduate research	Donald Wink and Gabriela Weaver
13.	The Impact of Future Faculty Professional Development in Teaching on STEM Undergraduate Education: A Case Study about the Delta Program in Research, Teaching and Learning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison	Donald Gillian-Daniel
14.	The Workshop for New Faculty in Physics and Astronomy	Kenneth Krane
15.	Working with the Discipline – Developing a Supportive Environment for Education	Cathy Manduca
16.	Barriers and Promises in STEM Reform	Melissa Dancy and Charles Henderson
17.	Linking Evidence and Promising Practices in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Undergraduate Education: A Status Report	James Fairweather