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LeTUS Research Papers

These papers from researchers at Northwestern are available as PDF files. Please click on a title to download it:

International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) Papers
 
Sherin, B., Schwartz, J., Kanter, D., Stieff, M., MacKenzie, S. and Herman, P. (2002) Conceptual Dynamics in Project-Based Science.

Matese, G., Sherin, M. G., & Edelson, D. C. (2002). Design principles for scaffolding inquiry-based science assessment. In P. Bell, R. Stevens, & T. Satwicz (Eds.), Keeping Learning Complex: The Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) (pp.276-283). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

Teaching Middle School Human Biology Through Biomedical Engineering-based Project Contexts. Kanter, D., Kemp, E., & Reiser, B. Paper presented at the American Society for Engineering Education Sectional Conference, March, 2001.

 

A Lab by Any Other Name: Integrating Traditional Labs and Computer-Supported Collaborative Investigations in Science Classrooms. Brown, M. and Edelson, D.C.

 

Software in Context: Designing for Students, Teachers, and Classroom Enactment. Brown, M., Edelson, D.

 

Steering the Course of Dialog in Inquiry-Based Science Classrooms. Tabak, I., & Reiser, B. J. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. April, 1999 (This link will take you to the BGuILE site where several papers are listed. Click on your Back button to return to this page.)

 

Iterative Design of a Technology-Supported Biological Inquiry Curriculum. Sandoval, W. A., & Reiser, B. J. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA 1998), San Diego, CA. April 13-17, 1998. (This link will take you to the BGuILE site where several papers are listed. Click on your Back button to return to this page.)

 

National Geographic Unplugged: Classroom-Centered Design of Interactive Nature Films. Smith, B.K., & Reiser, B.J. In CHI '98. Conference Proceedings on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (424-431). Los Angeles, CA

 

Reflection as a Vehicle toward Local and Global Understanding. Tabak, I., Sandoval, W.A., Smith, B. K., Steinmuller, F., & Reiser, B.J. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. April, 1998

 

Complementary Roles of Software-based Scaffolding and Teacher-Student Interactions in Inquiry Learning. Tabak, I., & Reiser, B.J. In Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (CSCL '97), December 10-14, 1997 Toronto, Canada

 

The Progress Portfolio: Designing Reflective Tools for a Classroom Context. In the Proceedings of CHI 98. (627-634). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley

 

BGuILE: Strategic and Conceptual Scaffolds for Scientific Inquiry in Biology Classrooms. Reiser, B.J., Tabak, I., Sandoval, W.A., Smith, B.K., Steinmuller, F. and Leone, A.J. To appear in S.M. Carver and D. Klahr (Eds.). Cognition and Instruction: Twenty-five Years of Progress. Mahwah, NJ. Erlbaum. 2001

 

Investigating the Mutual Adaptation Process in Teachers’ Design of Technology-infused Curricula. Reiser, B.J., Spillane, J.P.,  Steinmuller, F., Sorsa, D., Carney, K., & Kyza, E. In B. Fishman & S. O'Connor-Divelbiss (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Learning Sciences           (pp. 342-349). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

Toward a Theory of Leadership Practice: A Distributed Perspective. Spillane, J.P., Halverson, R. and Diamond, J.B. Instituted for Policy Research Working Paper 1999.

 

These papers and others from researchers at University of Michigan are available for online viewing and, in the case of PDF files, for download. Just click on a title to read or download it.

Foundations of Science: A Three-Year Integrated High School Curriculum. Pryor, A. and Soloway, E.

 

Inquiry-based Science Supported by Technology: Achievement Among Urban Middle School Students (PDF). Krajcik, J., Blumenfeld, P., Soloway, E. and Fishman, B.

 

ScienceWare's Model-It: Technology to Support Authentic Science Inquiry. Soloway, E., Pryor, A., Krajcik, J., Jackson, S., Stratford, S., Wisnudel, M. and Klein, J.

 

Observations of Urban Middle School Students Engaged in Technology-supported Inquiry (PDF). Taines, C., Schneider, R. and Blumenfeld, P.C.

 

Promoting Conceptual Understanding of Chemical Representations. Students' Use of a Visualization Tool in the Classroom (PDF). Wu, H., Krajcik, J. and Soloway, E.

 

Technological Support for Teachers Transitioning to Project-Based Science Practices. Soloway, E., Krajcik, J. and Blumenfeld, P.

 

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