Research

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EdPrepLab conducts, collects, and disseminates high-quality research on equity-focused educator preparation that is grounded in the science of learning and development.

EdPrepLab seeks out and highlights successful and productive practices from across teacher and leader preparation, emphasizing research that informs the field and supports programs that are interested in continuous improvement toward ambitious goals. To this end, EdPrepLab will share and occasionally conduct research that links program characteristics to teacher and student outcomes in pk-12 classrooms. 

Additionally, EdPrepLab gathers and supports research that documents program outcomes, such as employer and candidate perceptions of preparation, graduates’ practices in the classroom, and graduates’ performance on performance assessments.

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Brief

Positive Conditions for Mathematics Learning: An Overview of the Research

This brief from the Learning Policy Institute synthesizes research on the classroom conditions that most effectively support K–12 mathematics learning, particularly for students from historically marginalized groups.

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Report

Generative AI in STEM Teaching: Opportunities and Tradeoffs

This research report from the Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education examines the opportunities and challenges of Generative AI (GenAI) in STEM teaching.