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BioSIGHT
Project Director: Alan Feldman
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In partnership with Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) and SRI
International, TERC designed interactive visualization modules for
high school biology students, and explored how these can best support
inquiry-based teaching and learning. Funded by the University of
Southern California.
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Census Microdata in the Classroom: Phase 2
Project Director: Nancy Love
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In Phase 1, the Census Microdata in the Classroom project developed
Fathom Dynamic Statistics software for analyzing Census microdata.
In this new phase, TERC will continue to work with developers on
the classroom applications of the software, while also helping the
project develop applications for analyzing multiple sources of student
achievement and other school data. We will convene focus groups,
help to set up a pilot study, and construct examples and scenarios
of Fathom's use in analyzing school data. Funded by Key Curriculum
Press through a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Design for Science and Technology
Project Director: Lee Pulis
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Four project challenge curricula were developed for use in high
school science and technology education courses. The standards-based
student activities in the Science-By-Design series involve
investigation and iterative design improvements for a catapult,
mini-greenhouse, insulated glove, and model boat. Published by and
available from NSTA Press. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Eisenhower
Regional Alliance
Project Director: Mark Kaufman
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The Regional Alliance brings together key educational
leaders to plan and implement reform of mathematics, science, and
technology education. Through initiatives focused on curriculum implementation,
leadership development, and equity, the Alliance seeks to increase
the use of instructional materials, teaching practices, and assessment
tools that are aligned with state and national standards. Funded by
the United States Department of Education.
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Evaluation of the Media and American Democracy Summer Institute
Project Director: Elizabeth
Rowe
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TERC is the evaluator of the Media and American Democracy professional
development program for secondary educators co-sponsored by Harvard's
Graduate School of Education and the Joan Shorenstein Center on
the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy
School of Government. Funded by the Knight Foundation.
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Focus on Quality in Educational Technology Programs
Project Director: Alan Feldman
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This project will develop a framework and related materials to help
educators evaluate any educational technology program. The goal
is to engage broad segments of the educational technology community
in using the materials productively to plan for, design and improve
educational technology programs. The framework is based on the work
of The
Expert Panel on Educational Technology, created by the U.S.
Department of Education to recommend programs that should be designated
exemplary or promising. Funded by the Joyce Foundation.
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Hanau Model Schools Partnership
Project Director: Alan Feldman
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TERC, in partnership with four schools at the American army base
in Hanau, Germany, developed technologically enriched learning environments
where technology was employed as a tool for inquiry across grades
and curricula. The Model Schools Partnership designed and implemented
a technology infusion plan that included professional development,
continued community planning, and a comprehensive qualitative research
component. The partnership's research work, Hanau
Model Schools Partnership Research Report Series, and the
monograph, Technology
Infusion and School Change: Perspectives and Practices,
are both available online. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Kids
Network: Leveraging Learning
Principal Investigator: Judy
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With this project, TERC and the National Geographic Society (NGS)
are designing, evaluating, publishing, and marketing new units to
replace each of the units in the NGS Kids Network series for grades
3-6 and 6-8. Funded in part by the National Science Foundation.
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KidSmart-WriteSmart-AlphaSmart Evaluation
Principal Investigator: Elizabeth
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TERC is assisting Boston Public School's Office of Instructional
Technology in the evaluation of their KidSmart-WriteSmart-AlphaSmart
program to improve students' writing achievement. Funded by Boston
Public Schools, Office of Instructional Technology.
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IMPACT
Project Director: Mark Kaufman
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TERC designed and built a website of interactive tools for the IMPACT
Project, a program of the Center for the Enhancement of Science
and Mathematics Education (CESAME). Funded by Northeastern University.
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Massachusetts Technology Leadership Consortium
Project Director: Alan Feldman
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Massachusetts Technology Leadership Consortium (MA-TLC) is initiating
a comprehensive professional development program for Massachusetts
school leaders. This program will help participants increase their
abilities to lead systemic educational improvement efforts that
include high standards for all students, data-driven decision-making,
multiple forms of assessment, and effective uses of technology.
Funded by Massachusetts Elementary School Principals Association
(MESPA)
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NEIRTEC
Project Director: Alan Feldman
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NEIRTEC is the Northeast Regional Technology in Education consortium,
a partnership designed to support effective uses of educational
technology. As a partner, TERC provides professional development
to school leaders. Funded by Educational Development Center through
a grant from the United States Department of Education.
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Networking Communities
Project Director: Lee Pulis
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TERC facilitated Bunker Hill Community College, Cape Cod Community
College and Barnstable High School to collaborate with each other
and industry partners to develop new academic programs in computer
networking. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Networking
Education Teacher Support
Project Director: Lee
Pulis
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TERC is partnering with Network Development Group, Inc. of Research
Triangle Park, NC to develop and pilot test a curriculum featuring
Telnet session sharing to provide 24/7 Web-based lab experiences
in Internet addressing and router configuration. Funded by the National
Science Foundation.
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Nortel Networks NetKnowledge Curriculum
Project Director: Lee Pulis
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Due to the growing need for skilled workers in network technologies,TERC
and Nortel Networks collaborated to adapt existing professional
training materials to produce a state-of-the-art high school curriculum.
Funded by the Nortel Network.
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The Northern New England Co-Mentoring Network (NNECN)
Project Director: Bill Nave
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The Northern New England Co-Mentoring Network (NNECN) creates and supports a network of mentor teachers to support mathematics and science teachers new to the profession in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. TERC provides the external summative evaluation for the project. The summative evaluation includes a comparison study of the mentor/mentee pairs with a matched set of non-mentored new teachers. The summative evaluation addresses issues of mentor practices, mentee responses (both affective and behavioral), and the degree to which mentee outcomes differ from those of non-mentored teachers. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Pew Professional Development
Project Director: Diana Nunnaley
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The PEW Charitable Trusts provided funds to support a business feasibility
study. The knowledge gained formed the basis for a business development
initiative to provide services, tools, and resources to help students
improve mathematics and science skills. Funded by the PEW Charitable
Trusts.
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Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers with Technology
Project Directors: Elizabeth
Rowe & Bill Nave
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Boston University has been awarded a PT3 (Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers
with Technology) grant from the US DOE. The Project envisions BU's
School of Education methods faculty supporting their students (pre-service
teachers) as they create standards-based, technology-integrated
units of instruction to use during their practice teaching in area
K-12 classrooms. TERC is the external evaluator for the project.
Funded by the United States Department of Education.
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Project MEET
Project Director: Alan Feldman
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Project MEET is a statewide collaborative effort to provide technology
professional development to Massachusetts educators. The Research
group of Project MEET creates and disseminates research related
to evaluation of Project MEET. Project MEET prepares Massachusetts
teachers to use technology to strengthen their curriculum and raise
student achievement; strengthens support for teachers by training
technology professional development specialists in the areas of
leadership, planning, and curriculum integration. Funded by the
United States Department of Education.
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State Systemic Initiatives
Project Director: Sally Crissman
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With coordination from the Regional Alliance at TERC, eight State
System Initiatives (SSI's) tested the effectiveness of a systemic
support network. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Students as Technology Leaders (SaTL)
National Conference, October 2000
Project Director: Lee Pulis
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With National Science Foundation funding TERC co-hosted the first
SaTL national conference for invited high school and community college
students and teachers from 22 states. The three-day event, held
at MIT and Bentley College and attended by 250, focused on sharing
promising practices across information technology programs. Co-hosts
and sponsors included Mass Networks, Youth Tech Entrepreneurs, Tech
Boston, Cisco Systems, Cisco Learning Institute, Nortel Networks,
3Com, and RSA Security. Funded by the National Science Foundation
(and participating companies).
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STEM-HELP (Higher Education Liaison Project)
Principal Investigator: Mark Kaufman
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The Center for the Enhancement of Science and Mathematics Education (CESAME) and the Eisenhower Regional Alliance at TERC have developed a one-year design project to create a customized technical assistance plan for higher-education faculty under the NSF Math and Science Partnerships Goal 3 solicitation. STEM-HELP is creating professional development modules and tools that will enable higher education faculty to plan teacher professional development based on curriculum implementation and to utilize high-quality STEM instructional materials in pre-service teacher preparation programs. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Technology in Support of District-Wide Instructional Improvement
Principal Investigators: Mark Kaufman and Alan Feldman
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TERC is identifying the key challenges inherent in using digital technologies to improve student learning; developing case studies illustrating the complexities of systemic reform in medium sized urban districts; holding a conference for foundations, national technology vendors, and district and local educators; and preparing a final conference report. Funded by the MacArthur Foundation.
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The Testbed for Telecollaboration
Project Director: Alan Feldman
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The Testbed supported projects (at TERC and elsewhere) that aimed to use technology to improve science teaching and learning. Through these projects, science classrooms around the world worked together to design experiments, gather and share their data, and analyze the results. During the project's duration, the Testbed developed the Community Web, an innovative collaboration environment that provided classrooms with content-specific resources, support for discussions, automated data sharing, and tools for data analysis. A major publication, Network Science a Decade Later: The Internet and Classroom Learning (Erlbaum, 2000), emerged from this work. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Youth Tech Entrepreneurs Curriculum
Project Director: Lee Pulis
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TERC developed YTE's "Teachers Guides to Student Leadership and
IT (Information Technology) Service Projects" for two grade 10-11
courses: Computer Ventures and Web Ventures. Funded by YTE.
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