Funding

This website is part of a research and development project in which we are developing assessments and associated resources for supporting middle school students in argumentation across reading, writing and talking. This project, Constructing and Critiquing Arguments: Diagnostic Assessment for Information and Action System, is a collaboration between the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California Berkeley and Boston College and is supported by the Carnegie Corporation of NY grant number B 8780.

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project team

P. David Pearson, 
Professor, 
University of California, Berkeley

Jacqueline Barber, 
Associate Director, 
Lawrence Hall of Science

Katherine L. McNeill,
Associate Professor of Science Education, Boston College

Matthew A. Cannady, Director of Quantitative Studies,
Lawrence Hall of Science

Claire Fenton, 
Graduate Research Assistant,
University of California, Berkeley

Megan Goss, 
Lead Literacy Specialist/Curriculum Developer,
Lawrence Hall of Science

J. Bryan Henderson, Science Assessment Specialist,
Lawrence Hall of Science

Amanda M. Knight, Graduate Research Assistant,
Boston College

Karen Nelson, 
Research Data Analyst 2,
Lawrence Hall of Science

Jee In Seo, Undergraduate Research Assistant,
Boston College

ALUMNI

Seth Corrigan, Director of Education and Evaluation, Glass Lab at Institute of Play Fellow at MacArthur Foundation Gordon Fellows

Suna Ryu, Former Post Doctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley

Contact

Karen Nelson, Research Data Analyst 2, Lawrence Hall of Science - karenenelson@berkeley.edu