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Gerald Knezek Lead Principal Investigator

PROJECT DESCRIPTION. NSF ITEST.

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Gerald Knezek Lead Principal Investigator

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  1. PROJECT DESCRIPTION NSF ITEST In this project, approximately 600 sixth graders from seven middle schools in Louisiana, Maine, Texas and Vermont are monitoring home energy use under supervision of their (11) teachers. The data are being used to develop optimum scenarios for conserving energy and reducing production of greenhouses gases in local communities. The teachers are receiving professional development to carry out the project. Students and teachers are using online software tools to record and analyze their data and create projections of future energy use based on assumptions of policy changes. They are communicating their results within the project via information communication technology. Research is being conducted on the effects of the project on students' and teachers' changes of attitudes and interests in science, and in students' gains in science content knowledge through comparisons with matched, untreated schools. Farmington Stowe SCHOOL LOCATIONS Denton Irving Hammond Dallas GOALS Goal 1. To interest and to prepare middle school students to participate in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce of the future.Goal 2. To foster knowledge, skills, and dispositions in middle school students, their families, and their teachers that enable both awareness and on-going monitoring of home and community energy consumption.Goal 3. To produce model scenarios and activities that can be disseminated to educators nationwide, enabling classrooms beyond the immediate SOS project to prepare STEM workforce participants for the future. EVALUATION • Vermont Institutes     Doug Harris     Penny Nolte • Both formative and summative evaluation • Measure changes in participants' interests in careers, as well as attitudes of teachers and students toward technology and global citizenship • Quasi-experimental design for the analysis of outcomes for teachers and students • A measure of student and parent expectations, a 21st Century skills inventory, and STEM questionnaire PERSONNEL Gerald Knezek Lead Principal Investigator David GibsonGlobal Challenge Representative Rebekah McPhersonResearch Assistant Rhonda ChristensenCo-Principal Investigator Okyoung LimResearch Assistant Amber EllisonResearch Assistant Tandra Tyler-WoodCo-Principal Investigator Allen BaerSolarQuest Representative Tammy GriffithResearch Assistant (DRL-083376)

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