Iowa State University
College of Human Sciences


Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Research Projects

Ongoing Funded Research Projects and Grants

CAREER: Constructing Coherence: Elementary Teachers' Strategies for Using Standards-Based Mathematics Curriculum Materials
Principal Investigator: Corey Drake

 

Connecting Children's Mathematical Thinking to Community and Family Funds of Knowledge in Elementary Mathematics Methods
Principal Investigator: Corey Drake

 

Enhancing Education Through Technology (E2T2)
Principal Investigator: Gary D. Phye

 

Evaluation of Iowa Learning Technology Commission
Principal Investigator: Gary D. Phye

 

Helping Iowa Teachers Promote Critical Thinking and Inquiry in Science and Literacy in K-8 Classrooms
Principal Investigator: Lori A. Norton-Meier

 

Humanizing Science to Improve Post-Secondary Science Education: Pursuing the Second-Tier
Principal Investigator: Michael Clough

 

Improving Elementary Science by Connecting Science Inquiry and Language Arts
Principal Investigator: Lori A. Norton-Meier

 

Increasing Supply of Special Education Teachers
Principal Investigator: Pat Carlson

 

International Research and Teaching in Instructional Design Courses
Principal Investigator: Ana-Paula Correia Awarded in: Dec. 2007

 

Iowa Behavioral Alliance
Principal Investigator: Carl Smith

 

Iowa Dual Immersion and Elementary School Foreign Language Project
Principal Investigator: Marcia Rosenbusch

 

Iowa's Reading First Program State Evaluation
Principal Investigator: Gary D. Phye

 

Learning Biology/Geology/Science Education
Principal Investigator: Michael Clough

 

Learning Design Solutions: A Student-Led Embedded Enterprise in the College of Human Sciences
Principal Investigator: Ana-Paula Correia Awarded in: April 2009

 

Learning Social Studies
Principal Investigator: Denise Schmidt

 

National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center
Principal Investigator: Marcia Rosenbusch

 

Promoting Entrepreneurship Activities in the College Of Human Sciences Through Instructional Technology
Principal Investigator: Ana-Paula Correia Awarded in: Jan. 2007

 

Science Bound
Principal Investigator: Connie Hargrave

 

Science Learning and English Language Learners
Principal Investigator: Katherine Richardson-Bruna

 

Special Education Recruitment and Retention Study
Principal Investigator: Gary D. Phye

 

Tapping transnational talent in a global economy: Towards education for creative human capital in the demographic transition
Principal Investigator: Katherine Richardson-Bruna

 

Teacher Development Academy Website Project
Principal Investigator: Gary D. Phye

 

Teacher Education Goes Into Virtual Schooling (TEGVIS)
Principal Investigator: Niki Davis

 

Teaching for transfer with a focus on High School Math
Principal Investigator: Gary D. Phye

 

The Iowa Administrators' and Educators' Immersion Experience in Mexico
Principal Investigator: Katherine Richardson-Bruna

 

Turkish Student Teacher Internship Project
Principal Investigator: Connie Hargrave

 

Turkish Student Teacher Internship Project
Principal Investigator: Denise Schmidt

When Science and Literacy Meet: Creating Support for Teachers Implementing Writing in the Science Classroom
Principal Investigator: Lori A. Norton-Meier

When Science and Literacy Meet in the Primary Classroom (K-2): Investigating learning for young children when language events are connected to science inquiry
Principal Investigator: Lori A. Norton-Meier