National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
For Development Of A New Edition Of How People Learn
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/15/2014
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Term30 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The National Academy of Sciences provides independent advice to the government and other groups on matters involving science. This grant would enable NAS to produce an update to the well-regarded report How People Learn (first published 2000), and would result in products to support the education and training of students—as well as researchers who participate in the science of learning as individuals or as part of interdisciplinary teams—to include possible new areas such as advances in neuroscience, cultural diversity, and insights into deeper learning. This project is aligned with the Program’s research and development priorities to ensure a rigorous understanding of student development of deeper learning competencies.
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Grants to this Grantee
for a Committee on National Statistics panel
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine provide independent scientific advice to the government. Its Committee on National Statistics will convene an expert panel on an integrated system of household income, consumption, and wealth statistics, currently produced by multiple agencies. Available series are conceptually inconsistent and insufficiently accurate, timely, or detailed (geographically or demographically) for policy or research. Series differ as to the extent of inequality and other measures of households’ economic well-being, clouding policy debates and public understanding. The panel’s report will recommend steps toward an integrated system that can better illuminate households’ economic circumstances, as well as inequities in their ability to achieve an adequate standard of living and provide education and homeownership opportunities for their children.
for a workshop on lessons learned in the conduct of large scale global health program evaluations
This grant will support the Institute of Medicine with the National Academy of Sciences to plan and convene a two-day public workshop on "Lessons Learned in the Conduct of Large Scale, Complex, Multi-National Global Health Program Evaluations". The goal of this workshop is to capture and share the state of the art in evaluation science and to inform the planning and implementation of future large scale evaluations.
for developing a framework to guide the design of new national science assessments
The Academy set a vision for science education when it released a framework for new K-12 standards in 2010. Now it plans to design blueprints for assessments that would include measurement of deeper learning skills. We propose a partnership with the Carnegie Corporation and the Bechtel Fund to support this work, which likely will lead to a follow-up request in 2013 to fund new assessments of deeper learning in science.
