JASON Multimedia Science Curriculum

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JASON Multimedia Science Curriculum Multi-Year
Evaluation
Harouna Ba and Lauren B. Goldenberg EDC Center
for Children Technology June 18, 2003
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JASON Multimedia Science Curriculum Evaluation
Year 1 Exploratory Pilot JASON impact on
student learning
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Year 1 Findings Highlights

• JMSC changes teaching practices
• Increases collaboration among teachers
• Supports an interdisciplinary approach to
  teaching
• Increases teachers use of technology
• Students
• Keeps students engaged and interested in science
• Helps students ask better science questions
• Acquired scientific inquiry and analytical skills
• Consistently scored above average and
  outperformed non-JASON students

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Year 1 (cont.)

• Contextual factors for this success
• The JASON curriculum is flexible for different
  teaching situation
• Dedicated and innovative teachers

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JASON Multimedia Science Curriculum Evaluation
Year 1 Exploratory Pilot JASON impact on
student learning
Year 2 Teachers Teachers Use andOpinion of
JASON
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Year 2 Findings Highlights

• JASON teachers
• Are female and white (86.2)
• Have a lot of teaching experience (average of 15
  years)
• Have access to quality technologies (68)
• Serve a white student population with a range of
  academic placement levels and socioeconomic
  backgrounds
• Assess their students using presentations,
  reports, or multiple-choice tests

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Year 2 (cont.)

• As JASON teachers, the JMSC meet most of their
• Teaching objectives
• Assessment objectives
• Student learning objectives collaboration,
  problem-solving, research, assessment, and
  technology

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Year 2 (cont.)

• JMSC is flexible enough to accommodate the
  educational needs of a range of students gifted,
  regular, at-risk, special ed., and homeschoolers
• Examples
• Teachers have a lot flexibility to tinker with
  the curriculum in gifted classrooms
• Teachers adapt the JMSC to at-risk students
  reading comprehension and writing needs

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JASON Multimedia Science Curriculum Evaluation
Year 1 Exploratory Pilot JASON impact on
student learning
Year 2 Teachers Who are JASON-usingteachers

• Year 3 (current) Classrooms
• JASON in diverse classrooms
• Pilot Achievement Data

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Site Visits
SELECTEDSITES
StudentInterviews
TeacherInterviews
AdministratorInterviews
JASON XIV StudentActivity
YEAR 3EVALUATION
ClassroomObservations
StudentFeedback
PILOTState-level studentachievementdata
JASON XIVUse Survey
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Students Scientists
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Beyond interviews, observations
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Student Feedback
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JASON Multimedia Science Curriculum Evaluation
Year 1 Exploratory Pilot JASON impact on
student learning
Year 2 Teachers Who are JASON-usingteachers
Year 3 (current) Classrooms JASON in diverse
classrooms Pilot Achievement Data

• Future Evaluation Plans

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