Research

Centers

Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Research (BEAR) Center

Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)

Projects

Developing Citizens in Divided Societies (DECIDES)

DECIDES (Developing Ethical Civic Actors in Divided Societies): A study of civic development in Northern Ireland, South Africa and the United States.

PI and Project Director: Sarah... Learn More

Los Angeles School Infrastructure Project (LASI)

A variety of reforms ñ along with novel school organizations ñ have sprouted within the L.A. Unified School District over the past two decades.

Severely overcrowded schools in the 1990s... Learn More

Technology-Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS)

The Patterns Project

Children and students have a great deal of experience with patterns of behavior and control, such as balancing, randomness, tipping point, pumping (as pumping a swing), resonance (singing in a... Learn More

The Social Organization of Early Education: Serving Latino Children and Families

Bruce Fuller's work at Harvard and Berkeley over the past two decades has examined the benefits of various child care and preschool settings on children's early development and learning. A... Learn More

Web-based Integrated Science Environment (WISE)

What are the "Developmental Needs" of Children Learning Science? Revision of Developmental Constraints on Children's Science Education

This research project applies the learning progression perspective to the teaching of evolution, positing a learning progression for the conceptual underpinning of evolution for 2nd & 3rd... Learn More