(SGER) Shifting Mindsets: A Study of a First-Year Implementation of "New Technology High School"

PI：Gresalfi0738247这项用于探索性研究的小额助学金(SGER)考察了教师和学生在为两所高中的九年级学生实施新技术高中(Nths)项目课程的第一年所经历的变化。第一年的实施是以后各职等分阶段实施的一部分。Nths方法呼吁从更传统的数学和科学教育方法转向以项目为基础的课程，将数学和科学置于现实世界问题和问题的背景下。这项研究对时间很敏感，因为印第安纳州有两所学校将于2007年夏天开始实施，这项研究必须在07年秋季开始收集基线数据。这两所学校都位于学生成绩处于历史最低水平的城区。研究整个学生和教师群体如何适应一种新的、更以探究为导向的科学和数学方法，为研究专业发展、整个学校实施技术支持的基于项目的课程和评估学生成绩提供了独特的机会。

PI: Gresalfi0738247 This small grant for exploratory research (SGER) examines the kinds of changes teachers and students go through in their first year of implementing a New Technology High School (NTHS) project-based curriculum for ninth graders in two high schools. This first year of implementation is part of a phased-in implementation for subsequent grades. The NTHS approach calls for moving from more traditional approaches to mathematics and science education to project-based curriculula that posits mathematics and science in the context of real world issues and problesm. The study is time sensitive because there are two schools in Indiana that will begin implementation in the summer of 2007, and the study must begin the collection of baseline data in the fall of 07. Both schools are in urban districts with historically low levels of student performance. Examining how a whole community of students and teachers adapt to a new and more inquiry-oriented approach for science and mathematics isntruciton provides a unique opportunity for studying professional development, whole school implementation of technology supported project-based curricula, and assessing student results.