BSCS recently received news of funding from NSF's PRIME program for a research project titled Validating a Rapid Measure of Student Motivation: Using the Expectancy-Value Theory of...
Projects
BSCS works with people from around the world who care about the quality of science teaching and learning, including those in K-12 schools, colleges, other non-profits, government agencies, and foundations. We develop research-based instructional materials for students, provide transformative professional development, build leadership capacity within schools and districts, and provide evidence-based findings for students, teachers, administrators, parents, funding agencies, partners, and policy makers. Our current and recently completed projects list represents the scope of our work and diverse sources of funding.
For more information, please contact us at info@bscs.org or 719.531.5550.
In 2007, BSCS launched a five-year randomized control study that is testing the effectiveness of the multi-disciplinary program BSCS Science: An Inquiry Approach. Participating schools were randomly assigned for grade nine students to...
BSCS is the external evaluator for this new McREL (Mid-Continent Research Lab) project, which will develop and evaluate NanoExperiences, an out-of-school-time program that combines academic learning with additional supports—setting high...
BSCS recently completed development of two high school science teaching supplements with funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The middle school module, Rare Diseases and Scientific Inquiry, focuses on how scientific...
Science Teachers Learning from Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) is a professional development program that supports fourth- and fifth-grade teachers in teaching concepts in biology, physical science, and Earth science. In an earlier study with 48...
BSCS is working with teachers in Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS):
- through the development of curriculum support documents that embed opportunities for students to write and discuss their scientific...
Toward High School Biology: Helping Middle School Students Make Sense of Chemical Reactions is a three-year partnership with AAAS Project 2061. The outcomes of the...
This proof-of-concept study examines the questions: Can the science education research community develop a video-based, consensus-coding manual for analyzing videotapes of science teaching? Will such a “words-to-images” tool be valued by...
BSCS is partnering with California State University, Channel Islands, to Support high school teacher and student learning about the carbon cycle and the science of climate. Participating communities and school districts from Ventura County,...
BSCS is excited to be working with the University of Nebraska Medical Center on a Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) as project evaluator. The project work focuses on providing unique science and health-based, in and out-of-school student...
My pedagogical skills have become more refined and much more student centered as a result of my association with BSCS and the field trial materials.
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