Rhode Island Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (RI-ITEST)

罗德岛学生和教师信息技术体验(RI-ITEST)是一个面向高中学生和教师的综合ITEST项目。RI-ITEST的目标是让来自不同背景的学生通过参与令人兴奋的、基于探究的学习活动来为信息技术职业做好准备，这些活动使用复杂的计算模型来支持革命性的科学课程。它通过使用NSF资助的基于分子建模的学生材料，通过加强罗德岛的物理优先倡议来促进科学教育，并通过教授建模技能和向学生提供使用计算模型的职业和职业信息来促进信息技术教育。该项目为100名教师提供超过120小时的学分活动，并为课堂实施提供全力支持。Ri-ITEST正在开发CC原子和分子科学项目中的互动材料在罗德岛的物理第一课程中的最佳位置；开发与强调建模技能以及计算建模的职业和职业维度的学生材料相协调的IT材料；在两个队列中准备100名不同的罗德岛科学教师，以提供物理-化学-生物序列课程；为罗德岛和其他地方的非ITEST参与者的教师开发使用分子动力学和相关IT材料的材料和支持；为IT增强项目材料在增加学生学习和改变学生对科学、数学和技术职业的态度方面的有效性提供证据；向家长、指导顾问、学校管理人员和商业伙伴提供有关该项目、学生成果和有效性证据的信息；向全国其他教师、项目和学区传播材料和调查结果。

Rhode Island Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (RI-ITEST) is a comprehensive ITEST project for high school students and teachers. The goal of RI-ITEST is to prepare students from diverse backgrounds for careers in information technologies by engaging them in exciting, inquiry-based learning activities that use sophisticated computational models in support of a revolutionary science curriculum. It advances science education by enhancing the Physics First initiative in Rhode Island through the use of NSF funded student materials based on molecular modeling and promotes IT education by teaching modeling skills and providing students with career and vocational information on the use of computational models. The project provides over 120 hours of credit-bearing activities for 100 teachers and full support for classroom implementation. RI-ITEST is developing an optimal placement of the interactive materials from CC's Science of Atoms and Molecules project in the Physics First courses in Rhode Island; developing IT materials that are coordinated with the student materials that emphasize modeling skills and the career and vocational dimensions of computational modeling; preparing100 diverse Rhode Island science teachers in two cohorts to offer a course in the Physics-Chemistry-Biology sequence; developing materials and supports for using molecular dynamics and related IT materials for teachers in Rhode Island and elsewhere who are not ITEST participants; generating evidence for the effectiveness of the IT-enhanced project materials for increasing student learning and changing student attitudes about science, mathematics, and technology careers; reaching parents, guidance counselors, school administrators, and business partners with information about the project, student productions, and evidence for effectiveness; disseminating materials and findings to other teachers, programs, and districts nationwide.