Research on Teaching and Teacher Development in STEM Education

3 Hours

Scholarship related to STEM teaching and how it can be used to address problems in K-12 school instruction. Research on teaching, teacher knowledge and beliefs, and teacher education and professional development; relationships among research, theory, and practice; and consideration of a variety of critical issues, including the meaning of effective instruction and evidence-based arguments about teaching, and how research on student thinking and theories of learning inform our understanding of teaching.