The Humanities and Liberal Arts Assessment (HULA) project (a research and consulting group led by Danielle Allen and based out of Harvard’s Project Zero) has developed new research methodologies for ...

Generously funded through the Abundance Foundation, the Agency by Design project began at Project Zero in 2012. The initial research was guided by three questions: How do maker educators and leaders ...

A key goal of maker-centered learning is to help young people and adults feel empowered to build and shape their worlds. Acquiring this sense of maker empowerment is strongly supported by learning to ...

What is an Inquiry Cycle? The Inquiry Cycle offers a structure for educators to design, document, and reflect on maker-centered learning in their practice. While there is a rhythm to the cycle that is ...

In collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Education, Project Zero worked to help individual schools adopt portfolio assessment as part of a statewide school reform effort. The three-year ...

The AbD Making Moves are a set of observable or actionable “moves” that learners and educators can use to help design maker-centered learning experiences, and to support, observe, document, and assess ...

A protocol for looking critically at content and developing a sensitivity to the role(s) of power and participation in the design of objects and systems.

This tool is connected to the Agency by Design Making Moves. The Making Moves identifies three maker capacities that support a sensitivity to design, along with their associated learning moves. Here ...

This report describes the results of a survey administered to attendees at Justice Dialogues events hosted by six organizations in the Chicago area. Although estimates of total turnout were not ...