The most successful programs that have an impact on underrepresented groups are those that have role models that youth can identify with, and that develop appropriate situational, culturally relevant interactions with target youth.

Computational thinking (CT), a term that experienced a surge of popularity in the 2000s, refers to a broad range of mental processes that help human beings find effective methods to solve problems, design systems, understand human behavior, and leverage the power of computing to automate a wide range of intellectual processes.

The classroom learning environment is filled with speech in all forms—classroom discourse has notably been called “the language of learning.” However, learning mediated by speech remains complex and daunting to investigate at any meaningful scale.

Data Science is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to derive insights and knowledge from the analysis of typically very large data sets.

Perseverance has become part of the everyday language of education. The misconception that intellectual power alone can enable students to succeed in school and life is giving way to a deeper understanding that attaining long-term and higher-order goals can depend so much on how people deal with inevitable obstacles, setbacks, and challenges.

Citizen science is the practice of public participation and collaboration in scientific research or scientific exploration to increase scientific knowledge.

Labs are widely considered to be essential to learning science and engineering. Remote labs can overcome constraints that are hard to overcome in a school lab.

This primer organizes two dozen current trends that we feel are most relevant into five categories: social and demographic changes, general technology developments, innovations in educational technology, changes in the way we teach, and business trends

Smart and connected communities for learning (SCCL) leverage networks and technology to foster lifelong, lifewide learning that spans multiple settings or locations.

Evidence-centered design, or ECD for short, takes the art of test design and turns it into a science.