Research is central to the mission of the IU School of Education. Supported by our faculty, administration, and partners, we inform educational theory and practice through research that helps us make sense of the world.
Research Initiatives
Post-Secondary
- Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement (BCSSE)
- Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (CCIHE)
- Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE)
- Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE)
- National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)
- Charting the Future
- College + University Teaching Environment (CUTE) Survey
Special Education
The work of our researchers sparks global innovation in effective teaching and learning models.
Past initiatives
The ASKTM project investigated the structure of elementary teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) as it is held by novice or experienced teachers, as it is learned in the context of teacher preparation and practice, and as it is used for instruction and to support student learning. The project team developed a teacher knowledge assessment focused on fractions and decimals and subsequently examine the relationships between teacher knowledge, observed mathematics instruction, and student learning, through applications of recent advances in psychometric methods. The study aimed to advance fundamental knowledge of the structure of MKT and thereby offer theoretical and pragmatic implications for the field of mathematics teacher education. For additional information, please contact Dr. Erik Jacobson.
Supported by a grant from the Lloyd G. Balfour Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee, the Balfour Scholars Program (BSP) was a program for high school juniors designed to help cultivate student academic and career development as well as minimize misperceptions about affordability, unfamiliarity with higher education, and difficulties with cultural adjustment that prevent students from successfully matriculating and graduating from college. The program was free of cost to all participants.
Investigating Differentiated Instruction and Relationships between Rational Number Knowledge and Algebraic Reasoning in Middle School
Goals
The research goals of this project were to investigate how to differentiate mathematics instruction for middle school students with different ways of thinking, and to understand how students’ rational number knowledge and algebraic reasoning are related. In years 3-6 of the project we also investigated how classroom teachers learn to differentiate instruction.
The educational goals of this project were to enhance the abilities of prospective and practicing teachers to teach diverse students, to improve doctoral students’ understanding of relationships between students’ learning and teachers’ practice, and to form a community of mathematics teachers committed to on-going professional learning about how to effectively differentiate instruction.