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Nov 23, 2024
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MB 7220 - Advancing STEM in Schools2 lecture hours 4 lab hours 4 credits Course Description This course extends the learning from knowledge gained in Project Lead The Way or Center for BioMolecular Modeling summer courses. The course requires students to develop a comprehensive plan to extend and enhance STEM education within their own school, and beyond their own classroom. Possible plans might address improving student preparation for STEM study along the K-12 pipeline. Participation by teachers and school administrators must be incorporated into planning the initiative. (prereq: MB 7210 and completion of second Project Lead The Way summer course) Course Learning Outcomes Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Design an action research model to address the formulated research question
- Address key ethical and legal issues surrounding action research in the classroom, and in the research design of own project in particular
- Identify, adapt, and justify new STEM curriculum and/or teaching techniques as the intervention to be investigated in the research model
- Implement the classroom research protocol defined in the model, typically including pre-measures, intervention, and post-measures
- Apply appropriate statistical analysis methods to evaluate data gathered in research effort
- Document and present results of research with an emphasis on findings, implications for student learning, and factors for further consideration
- Communicate positive findings to peers and school leaders in a compelling and persuasive manner
- Evaluate the action research of others to determine validity
Prerequisites by Topic Course Topics
- Introduction - course overview
- Review of action research project & timeline
- Role of school leaders in school improvement
- Developing formal hypotheses
- Using research for school improvement
- School-level action research
- Instruments for data gathering
- Gathering data from staff and other stakeholders
- Statistical methods - quantitative and qualitative
- Analyzing cause-effect experiments, correlations, survey research, qualitative studies
- School-level action research teams
- Case study: decreasing the performance gap
- Independent action research project work
- Complete and submit final report
Coordinator Dr. Kathleen Miezio
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