| News Archive for LSRI |
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| EdWeek quotes Jim Pellegrino on new science standards -- May 20, 2013 Education Week quotes LSRI Co-Director Jim Pellegrino on taking the time to develop the right assessmen... Click to read more. |
| Reality Canty wins mentoring award -- May 10, 2013 Reality Canty, a graduate research assistant at LSRI, has won the UIC Undergraduate Mentoring Award for Graduate Students.
The award honors outstanding, creative and hardworking undergraduate mentors across the university's campus. Canty's... Click to read more. |
| National Academies of Sciences honors Jim Pellegrino's work -- May 9, 2013 Two reports edited or produced by LSRI Co-Director Jim Pellegrino are being honored by the National Academies of Science for the significant influence they have had on curriculum and instruction in this country.
As part of its 150th annive... Click to read more. |
| Jim Pellegrino is quoted in Community College Times -- May 8, 2013 Educators are covering too much material too quickly, according to Jim Pellegrino, LSRI co-director, in Community College Times.
The news from the American Association of Community Colleges quotes him in its coverage of a more. |
| Jim Pellegrino is featured as one of CRESST's distinguished scholars -- May 8, 2013 LSRI Co-Director Jim Pellegrino has been selected as a feature speaker for the Distinguished Scholar Colloquium sponsored by the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing, or CRESST.
His talk is called Click to read more. |
| Jim Pellegrino discusses college- and career-readiness with NCEE -- May 8, 2013 LSRI Co-Director Jim Pellegrino joined a panel with the National Center on Education and the Economy May 7 to talk about its new report, What Does It Really Mean to Be College and Work Ready?
The Mathematics and English Literacy Required of First... Click to read more. |
| Join LSRI at AERA in San Francisco on April 27 -- April 24, 2013 We're proud to announce LSRI's strong showing at this year’s American Educational Research Association annual meeting.
Our directors, faculty and graduate students will be sharing their rese... Click to read more. |
| LSRI's Jim Pellegrino sees hope for real change in science classrooms under new standards -- April 18, 2013 The nation’s new science curriculum standards are breaking ground for educators and policy makers to shape critical thinkers of the future, as well as to develop the teaching and testing tools to help students meet those goals.
And with de... Click to read more. |
| LSRI undergrads head to UIC student research forum tomorrow -- April 15, 2013 LSRI is proud to be sponsors of undergraduates who have been selected to attend tomorrow's 2013 UIC Student Research Forum.
The students were selected to share their exceptional scholarship with other students who UIC considers to be among... Click to read more. |
| LSRI-mentored RAs win MPA research awards -- April 15, 2013 Four undergraduate students with LSRI have won the 2013 UIC Psychology Department MPA Undergraduate Research Award.
The four, Yan Yan Du, Sagung Kertayuda, Zach Horton and Gloria Yum, work with the DR-K12 Curriculum Embedded Assessment Pro... Click to read more. |
| Report by Prof. Josh Radinsky details deep impact of CPS school closings -- April 10, 2013 A new report by LSRI Associate Professor Josh Radinsky shows that the proposed CPS school closings will shuffle more children and more students of color and with disabilities than district officials estimated.
His report, coauthored by Col... Click to read more. |
| Sun-Times applauds Prof. Josh Radinsky's report on CPS school closings -- April 10, 2013 A Chicago Sun-Times editorial cites LSRI Associate Professor Josh Radinsky's work on CPS school closings, calling it a "more honest" look at the impact the massive effort will have on children.
In its call to slow the effort, the Click to read more. |
| Assistant Professor Leilah Lyons wins graduate mentoring award -- April 4, 2013 Leilah Lyons, an assistant professor of learning sciences and computer science, is a winner of UIC's 2013 Graduate College Mentoring Award.
Lyons is one of four faculty members across the university to win the honor, given for excellence a... Click to read more. |
| Goldman's new research maps how learners process information from Internet -- 03/18/13 New research led by LSRI Co-director Susan S. Goldman begins to map the process students readers use to gain more knowledge when they read websites to learn new subjects.
The work, published in Reading Research Quarterly, suggests ... Click to read more. |
| Pellegrino outlines vision for new school-based assessments in Hechinger Report -- Jim Pellegrino, co-director of LSRI, outlines what new and improved assessments that focused on accelerated student learning rather than accountability could look like in a story published in The Hechinger Report.
His comments stem... Click to read more. |
| Gordon Commission calls for dramatic changes in assessments -- A high-level commission of educators, researchers and policy analysts is calling on state and federal policymakers to commit to a long-term plan to significantly change assessments so that they place a greater emphasis on providing timely and valuabl... Click to read more. |
| Jim Pellegrino wins prestigious AERA award -- 03/06/13 James Pellegrino, co-director of the Learning Sciences Research Institute, has won the 2013 American Educational Research Association’s Robert L. Linn Distinguished Address Award.
Pellegrin... Click to read more. |
| Philip Wagreich named honorary innovator of the year -- Philip Wagreich, a former professor of mathematics, statistics, and computer science and a professor of learning sciences, has been named UIC's 2012 Honorary Innovator of the Year.
Wagreich was a co-founder of LSRI's Teaching Integrated ... Click to read more. |
| Radinsky named co-editor of The Journal of the Learning Sciences -- Josh Radinsky, an associate professor with LSRI, has been named co-editor in chief of The Journal of Learning Sciences, the premier publication of the field.
At LSRI, Radinsky is the principal investigator of five federally funded r... Click to read more. |
| Alison Castro Superfine Receives Teaching Award -- 01/11/12 Learning Sciences and Math professor Alison Castro Superfine has been selected by a group of peers to receive a 2011-2012 Teaching Recognition Award. The review process, conducted by the Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), conc... Click to read more. |
| James Pellegrino Quoted in Story about Digital Emphasis in Classrooms -- The Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minn.) quotes Dr. James Pellegrino, co-director
of the Learning Sciences Research Institute at UIC and distinguished
professor
of liberal arts and sciences, psychology and education, in an story looking
at the transi... Click to read more. |
| Congratulations to Leilah Lyons on National Endowment for Humanities Grant -- Congratulations to Leilah Lyons who has just received a new 1-year, $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project entitled "CoCensus: Collaboration Exploration of Census Data in a Museum." Click to read more. |
| Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers develops model content frameworks -- The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), one of two consortia that are developing new assessments based upon the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M), has developed model content frameworks in Mathe... Click to read more. |
| AtLAS Newsletter Profiles LSRI -- A profile of LSRI and Drs. Goldman and Pellegrino entitled "Designing Environments for 21st Century Learning and Learners" is featured in the current newsletter of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The article, by Micki Levanthan,... Click to read more. |
| Susan Goldman elected to the National Academy of Education -- 4/18/2011 Susan Goldman has been elected to the National Academy of Education. As an honorific society, the Academy consists of up to two hundred U.S. members and up to twenty-five foreign associates who are elected on the basis of outstanding scholarship or ... Click to read more. |
| Susan Goldman is the Inaugural recipient of the LRDC Distinguished Alumni Award -- Susan Goldman is the inaugural recipient of the LRDC Distinguished Alumni Award. Dr. Goldman is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and
Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her prolific published research has made substantial contribu... Click to read more. |
| Learning sciences institute partners in two education research grants -- 10/20/2010 UIC’s Learning Sciences Research Institute is a partner in two science education research grants totaling $2.8 million.
The institute will collaborate in a $1.8 million study, backed by the U.S. Department of Education, that examines onli... Click to read more. |
| UIC TO LEAD $19 MILLION READING FOR UNDERSTANDING PROJECT -- June 24, 2010 The University of Illinois at Chicago has been awarded a five-year,
$19.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute
of Education Sciences to create a multi-institutional research team
that will study reading for understand... Click to read more. |
| IES Invests $19 million in "Reading for Understanding” Research Team at UIC, Northwestern, Northern -- 06/18/2010 This week, the Institute of Education Sciences announced that a multi-institution collaborative team consisting of researchers, practitioners, and developers from University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Northwestern University, Northern Illinois ... Click to read more. |
| Susan Goldman elected President of the International Society of the Learning Sciences -- Jun 15, 2010 Dr. Susan Goldman is to be congratulated on being elected as the new President of the International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Her three year term begins this June and its start coincides with events at this year's 9th Internation... Click to read more. |
| DR-K12 Undergraduate Research Assistants participate in 2010 UIC Student Research Forum -- 04/26/10
Congratulations to Undergraduate Research Assistants, Marlyse Jonfe-Quinto, Natalia Kaczmarek, and Marty Muloski, for an outstanding showing at the annual UIC Student Research Forum. The research assistants were a great asset to the Evaluation o... Click to read more. |
| Susan Goldman and Jim Pellegrino honored as AERA Fellows. -- Congratulations to Susan Goldman and Jim Pellegrino who are being honored
as American Educational Research Association Fellows in recognition of
their exceptional scientific and scholarly contributions to education
research.
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| Dr. Joshua Radinsky receives an NSF CAREER Award -- Josh is an Assistant Professor with joint appointments in UIC's Learning Sciences Program and in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction in the College of Education.
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundati... Click to read more. |
| Response to the Common Core Standards from the Learning Sciences Research Institute -- 04/01/2010 The Teaching Integrated Mathematics and Science (TIMS) Project has issued a draft of their Response Statement to the Common Core State Standards.
The purpose of this statement is to express deep concerns about the Common Core State Stand... Click to read more. |
| Professional Video, Audio, and Graphic Arts Services -- 03/26/09 The Office of Media Services at the Learning Sciences Research Institute offers professional video, audio, and graphic arts services.
The Office of Media Services has provided professional quality services to the UIC campus, partner scho... Click to read more. |
| Drs. Goldman and Pellegrino named LAS Distinguished Professors -- 4/23 /08 Congratulations to both Susan Goldman and Jim Pellegrino, who have each just been honored with the title of LAS Distinguished Professor! This immense honor recognizes the extraordinary distinction they have each brought to the college an... Click to read more. |
| Boles Becomes Certified Research Administrator -- 2/26/08 Eve Ali Boles, Assistant Director at LSRI, has earned the distinction of "Certified Research Administrator" through the Research Administrators Certification Council (www.cra-cert.org).
This certificat... Click to read more. |
| Soto-Malfavon appointed Graduate Coordinator -- 2/26/08 Monica Soto-Malfavon has officially been appointed as Graduate Studies Coordinator for the Learning Sciences Ph.D. program.
Previously she had been Coordinator of Research Programs for LSRI.
Congratulations, Monica! Click to read more. |
| IMSE Honored with Anonymous Gift -- 2/25/08 The Initiative in Math and Science Education, a part of LSRI, was recently honored with a gift from an anonymous donor.
The gift was in recognition of the excellent professional development work done by the TIMS Project and the ALM Project... Click to read more. |
| $3 Million NSF Project Targets Mathematics Programs -- 10/24/2007 Release Date: October 8, 2007
Contact: Brian Flood, (312) 996-7681, bflood@uic.edu
The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Illinois at Chicago a five-year, $3 million grant to evaluate the assessment components of... Click to read more. |
| Pellegrino quoted in Education Week -- 04/27/07 James Pellegrino, UIC Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Education and Co-Director of LSRI, is quoted in an Education Week article on proficiency standards related to the No Child Left Behind Act and the National Assessment of Education Progre... Click to read more. |
| Pellegrino elected to National Academy of Education -- 04/23/07 Jim Pellegrino, Co-Director of the Learning Sciences Research Institute at UIC, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Education (http://www.naeducation.org/). The Academy consists of up to two hundred U.S. members and up to twent... Click to read more. |
| LITD Participation at The Society for Text and Discourse 2006 -- 7/10/2006 Several members of LITD will present their work at The Society for Text and
Discourse Conference (http://www.societyfortextandd
iscourse.org/). The Society for Text & Discourse is an... Click to read more. |
| Dr. Singer presents paper in the Netherlands -- 6/13/2006 In January 2006, Dr. Melissa Singer presented a talk entitled Children co-constructing science explanations in multimedia environments at a
worshop on Cognitive and linguistic factors in interactive knowledge
construction in Nijmegen, The ... Click to read more. |
| LITD Participation at ICLS 2006 -- 6/13/2006 Members of LITD and our collaborators participated in numerous sessions at
the 2006 International Conference of the Learning Sciences
(http://www.isls.org/icls2006/). ICLS is the official conference... Click to read more. |
| LITD Participation at AERA 2006 -- 05/11/2006 Members of LITD and our collaborators participated in numerous sessions at the 2006 American Educational Research Association Conference (http://www.aera.net). The American Educational Research Association (AERA), f... Click to read more. |
| Co-Director Pellegrino quoted in news articles -- 05/11/2006 Dr. James Pellegrino, UIC Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Education, and Co-Director of LITD, is quoted in an Education Week article on the management and use of data systems to guide instructional decisions made by teachers, principals, an... Click to read more. |
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