iCoachTEAM is a five-year project co-led across Digital Promise between Learning Sciences Research and the Center for Inclusive Innovation. Read more.
iCoachTEAM is a five-year project co-led across Digital Promise between Learning Sciences Research and the Center for Inclusive Innovation. The iCoachTEAM project aims to design, implement, research, and evaluate an instructional coaching program that helps middle school mathematics teachers use technology for conceptual understanding and formative assessment with students, especially those who are underserved. We define underserved students whose math test scores are a year or more behind grade level and/or those who identify as Black, Latino, and/or low-income.
K-12
Design Research, Qualitative, and Quantitative
Mathematics and Teaching/Coaching
Education Innovation and Research and US Department of Education
This exploration project, conducted by Digital Promise Global and funded by the Institute of Education Sciences from Nov 2023 to June 2025, analyze grade 8 mathematics assessment process data from the NAEP. Read more.
This exploration project, conducted by Digital Promise Global and funded by the Institute of Education Sciences from Nov 2023 to June 2025, analyze grade 8 mathematics assessment process data from the NAEP. The study aimed to understand test-taking behaviors and mathematics performance differences between learners with and without disabilities. Insights gained are expected to improve educational strategies, learning and assessment design, making them more equitable and accessible.
Website, Resources and Publications
K-12 and Middle School
Design Research and Quantitative
Accessibility, Assessments, Diversity/Equity/Inclusion, Learning Analytics, and Mathematics
Institute of Education Sciences
Using Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reading R&D Center (U-GAIN Reading), is a research and development hub that will investigate how to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to improve elementary school reading instruction for English learners (ELs). Read more.
Using Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reading R&D Center (U-GAIN Reading), is a research and development hub that will investigate how to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to improve elementary school reading instruction for English learners (ELs). U-GAIN Reading’s focus on ELs responds to an important policy goal at the US Department and in most states and districts. Only 33% of ELs achieve National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Basic reading level—whereas 67% of all fourth-grade students reach this level. Teachers are essential to learning to read, but cannot spend as much time with each individual student as needed. U-GAIN Reading will investigate reading instruction that adapts to students’ strengths and needs in order to help schools provide greater support and feedback to increase reading fluency and comprehension.
Elementary School
Qualitative and Quantitative
Curriculum, Diversity/Equity/Inclusion, Learning Analytics, Learning Technology, and Literacy
The Gates AIMS Collaboratory connects digital platforms for learning with researchers and educators, so that research can be conducted. Read more.
The Gates AIMS Collaboratory connects digital platforms for learning with researchers and educators, so that research can be conducted. We will extend the broader movement of Digital Learning Platforms as Research Infrastructure by engaging more researchers with AIMS Teams. Specifically, we will increase awareness and demand; support research contributions that leverage AIMS Team resources; understand conditions for further success in engaging researchers with AIMS.
High School and Middle
Research-Practice-Industry Partnership and Researcher-Practicioner-Partnership
Curriculum, Learning Analytics, Learning Technology, Mathematics, and Teacher Education
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Digital Promise is reviewing and synthesizing findings from National Science Foundation (NSF) awards that addressed the unanticipated effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on STEM teaching and learning. Read more.
Digital Promise is reviewing and synthesizing findings from National Science Foundation (NSF) awards that addressed the unanticipated effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on STEM teaching and learning. Outputs from this work will be used in thematic workshops with NSF principal investigators to identify the most important insights across projects and share recommendations for future research. The data generated from the workshops will be meta-synthesized and presented in a capstone webinar and other dissemination pieces to share findings across the portfolio of NSF awards that researched the educational impacts of COVID-19.
Adult Ed/Workforce, Postsecondary, and PreK
Literature Review/Synthesis
Curriculum, Family Engagement, Learning Technology, and Teaching/Coaching
National Science Foundation
The Center for Integrative Research in Computing and Learning Sciences (CIRCLS) is a community-based hub for National Science Foundation-funded researchers who explore and investigate technologies that will be available to learners in the future. Read more.
The Center for Integrative Research in Computing and Learning Sciences (CIRCLS) is a community-based hub for National Science Foundation-funded researchers who explore and investigate technologies that will be available to learners in the future. Advancing equity is a core goal in this research. Emerging technologies create a potential for dynamic supports that meet learners’ varying personal-, community-, and context-centered strengths and needs. CIRCLS aims to build community among researchers, practitioners, developers, and other education stakeholders and provides opportunities to strengthen proposals, synthesize insights and findings, increase diversity, engage with colleagues, and broaden dissemination efforts.
Design Research, Literature Review/Synthesis, and Network/Hub
Learning Technology
National Science Foundation
In partnership with SRI International and Vanderbilt University, this project examines the impacts of different levels of engagement with computational thinking (CT) on fifth- and sixth-grade students' learning of CT, science, and engineering. Read more.
In partnership with SRI International and Vanderbilt University, this project examines the impacts of different levels of engagement with computational thinking (CT) on fifth- and sixth-grade students' learning of CT, science, and engineering. The project involves a comparison study featuring three instructional conditions: computational model construction, manipulation, and exploration. Findings will inform the design of integrated STEM and CT instructional materials and teaching tools for K-12 students and teachers.
K-12
Design Research
AI/CS/CT, Learning Technology, and Science & Engineering
National Science Foundation
In partnership with New Visions for Public Schools (NY), refine, implement, and scale a professional learning and curriculum adoption model for high school life science. Read more.
In partnership with New Visions for Public Schools (NY), refine, implement, and scale a professional learning and curriculum adoption model for high school life science.
High School
Scaling, Science & Engineering, and Teaching/Coaching
Carnegie Corporation of New York
This project involves developing curricular and training materials to support high school world history teachers’ facilitation of text-based discussions (online or in-person) and fostering students’ historical thinking skills. Read more.
This project involves developing curricular and training materials to support high school world history teachers’ facilitation of text-based discussions (online or in-person) and fostering students’ historical thinking skills. The materials will be co-designed by world history teachers with varying levels of comfort and prior experience in facilitating discussions. The curricular resources will be piloted and made freely available both through Digital Promise and through the World History Project (an open-access curriculum by OER Project) in which they will be embedded.
High School
Design Research and Researcher-Practitioner Partnership
Curriculum, Diversity/Equity/Inclusion, ELA, History, and Literacy
Institute of Education Sciences
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