Dr. Michele Korb (Teacher Education) and her team, Dr. Michelle Sinapuelas from CSUEB and Dr. Corinne Lardy from Sacramento State, were awarded $3.577 million by the National Science Foundation to support the Aligning the Science Teacher Education Pathway (A-STEP) project.  The A-STEP project, building on the ASET project (NSF 1418440), will continue work with eight university partners to bridge existing gaps across the scienc...

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a survey of opportunities to participate (OtP) in science that will allow educators and researchers to closely approximate the types of learning opportunities students have in science classrooms. Additionally, we examined whether and how opportunity gaps in science learning may exist across schools with different socio-economic levels. The OtP in science survey cons...