The National Academies study on the status, contributions and future directions of Discipline-Based Education Research has posted its commissioned papers:

1. Papers on education research in biology, physics, geoscience and engineering
2. Papers on learning science and epistemologies across the sciences

We continue to follow this study and look forward to its report. These papers present robust analyses and syntheses of the contributions – from graduate programs to areas of investigation, significant findings and unanswered questions – of educational researchers in these scientific disciplines and engineering. Some of the papers are pretty heady, but offer good summaries by experts in these fields.

Also, check out the commissioned papers and summary report from the Academies workshops on Promising Practices in undergraduate STEM education.

Next up (I hope), the new Science Framework that will be used to develop common core science standards for K-12.