University of Arizona

The Access, Wellness, and Relational Determinants of School Success (AWARDSS)-PLUS training program at the University of Arizona provides upper-level undergraduate students, recent graduates, and masters students with experiences in conducting educational research while preparing participants for doctoral study.

The new Access, Wellness, and Relational Determinants of School Success (AWARDSS) training program at the University of Arizona is designed to provide upper-level undergraduate students, recent graduates, and masters students with experiences in conducting educational research while preparing participants for doctoral study.

The impact of visual impairment is widely recognized to be particularly significant for mathematics learning as vision provides important access to information that supports the development of conceptual understanding in mathematics. Students with visual impairments consistently lack access to the mathematics curriculum and therefore show substantially lower achievement in mathematics and reduced participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. Helping students with...

To address teacher assessment needs in the early 2000s, the research team proposed a new assessment approach to measure teachers' knowledge of teaching mathematics. Many of the assessments of teacher knowledge that were available at the time of this project assessed low-level or marginally relevant knowledge and not teachers' deep knowledge of subject matter and actual teaching skills. In addition, many assessments of teacher knowledge were criticized for technical shortcomings related to th...