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

主要研究者：这个探索性研究（SGER）的小补助金考察了教师和学生在两所高中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。 第一年的实施是后续年级分阶段实施的一部分。 NTHS的方法要求从更传统的方法，以数学和科学教育，以项目为基础的课程，假定数学和科学的背景下，真实的世界问题和programm。这项研究具有时间敏感性，因为印第安纳州有两所学校将于2007年夏季开始实施，这项研究必须在2007年秋季开始收集基线数据。 这两所学校都在城市地区，学生的成绩历来很低。 研究整个社区的学生和教师如何适应一个新的和更探究为导向的方法，为科学和数学的教学提供了一个独特的机会，研究专业发展，整个学校实施技术支持的基于项目的课程，并评估学生的成绩。

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.