Higher Education
ENRICHING THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOL TEACHERS & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY IN RURAL MICHIGAN: AN RET SITE ON SMART VEHICLES
- (2016 to 2018)
- Funding directly to SAMPI
- Funder: National Science Foundation
- Description: Enriching the Professional Development of Schools and Teachers & Community College Faculty in Rural Michigan – an RET Site on Smart Vehicles (CMU-RET) - is a collaborative research project involving engineering faculty and researchers from Central Michigan University and external evaluators from SAMPI. The goal is to establish a strong science and engineering learning partnership between Central Michigan University (CMU) and other educational entities in the highly rural central portion of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula (often referred to as “Mid-Michigan”). The three-year program will recruit 15 teams—five per year, each consisting of an in-service secondary school teacher, a community college instructor, and a pre-service teacher enrolled at CMU—to participate in an engineering research project. CMU-RET began in 2016 and continues through 2018.
PALS: PRACTICAL ACTIVE LEARNING STATIONS TO TRANSFORM AND IMPROVE EXISTING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS
- (2016 to 2019)
- Funding directly to SAMPI
- Funder: National Science Foundation
- Description: PALS: Practical Active Learning Stations to Transform and Improve Existing Learning Environments for Computer Science Students (CMU-PALS) is a project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The purpose of the project is to develop, deploy, and evaluate a means of adapting existing Computer Science (CPS) classrooms to facilitate active learning. Specifically, open-source and flexible software is being developed that can run on lightweight, commodity hardware to create self-contained practical, active learning stations (PALS). These stations are being deployed to create an active learning classroom. It is anticipated that this approach will allow other traditional classrooms to be converted to modified active learning classrooms. The effectiveness of PALS is being determined by comparing PALS with a state-of-the-art active learning classroom that does not make use of PALS, and with a “traditional” classroom with no technology to support active learning.
ENRICHING THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOL TEACHERS & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY IN RURAL MICHIGAN: AN RET SITE ON SMART VEHICLES
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(2016 to 2018)
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Funding directly to SAMPI
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Funder: National Science Foundation
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Description: Enriching the Professional Development of Schools and Teachers & Community College Faculty in Rural Michigan – an RET Site on Smart Vehicles (CMU-RET) - is a collaborative research project involving engineering faculty and researchers from Central Michigan University and external evaluators from SAMPI. The goal is to establish a strong science and engineering learning partnership between Central Michigan University (CMU) and other educational entities in the highly rural central portion of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula (often referred to as “Mid-Michigan”). The three-year program will recruit 15 teams—five per year, each consisting of an in-service secondary school teacher, a community college instructor, and a pre-service teacher enrolled at CMU—to participate in an engineering research project. CMU-RET began in 2016 and continues through 2018.
TITLE IIA(3)—IMPROVING TEACHER QUALITY COMPETITIVE GRANTS PROGRAM STATEWIDE CROSS-SITE EVALUATION
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(2004 to 2018)
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Client: Michigan Department of Education Office of Professional Services
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Funder: Michigan Department of Education
Statewide cross-site evaluation of cadres of professional development projects funded through the Michigan Department of Education Title IIA(3) Improving Teacher Quality Competitive Grants Program. SAMPI gathers data across sites, provides evaluation technical assistance to projects, and compiles findings for reporting to MDE and other stakeholders.
TITLE IIA—LESSON OBSERVATION TRAINING
- (2004 to 2018)
- Client: Michigan Department of Education Office of Professional Services
- Funder: Michigan Department of Education
Training to use the SAMPI Lesson Observation protocol.
TESLA: TEACHERS ENGAGED IN SCIENCE LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES
- (2015 to 2017)
- Client: Wayne RESA
- Funder: State of Michigan
- Description: SAMPI provides internal evaluation services for TESLA, a science professional development program across Michigan. SAMPI collects and analyzes survey, interview, and observations data. Results are communicated with the project manager so the project team can make changes to the project, as necessary, and provide information about the project to funders and other stakeholders.
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY’S EXPERTS (EXPERIENCING RESEARCH FOR TEACHING SCIENCE)
- (2010 to 2016)
- Funder: Howard Hughes Medical Institutes' Precollege and Undergraduate Science Education Program
CPACE II: IMPLEMENTING CONSTITUENCY-DRIVEN CURRICULAR CHANGE THAT INTEGRATES COMPUTATIONAL THINKING ACROSS ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES
- (2009 to 2014)
- Funder: National Science Foundation
MSU CCLI PHASE II—COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE CONCEPT INVENTORIES TO REVEAL STUDENT THINKING: FORGING A NATIONAL NETWORK FOR INNOVATIVE ASSESSMENT METHODS
- (2010 to 2013)
- Funder: National Science Foundation