Evaluation – Curriculum Research & Development Group

Hawaiian Immersion Assessment

CRDG’s Paul Brandon and George Harrison are serving in a technical advisory role for the development of the Hawaiian Language Immersion Assessments, which, when they are completed, will measure student learning on the math and language arts concepts articulated in…

Test Administration to Support DOE Program

A CRDG evaluation team has completed the administration of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) to 280 children in two “zones of school innovation” as defined by Hawai‘i’s Race to the Top program. The two zones, one in the Ka‘ū-Kea‘au-Pāhoa…

CRDG Evaluators Contributing to Growing Field of Research on Evaluation

CRDG’s team of evaluators continued to work on specific evaluation projects, both within CRDG and for outside groups including the Hawai‘i Departments of Education and Health. But as members of the academic community, their focus is not only on carrying…

Literacy and Hawaiian Education Program

Literacy and Hawaiian Education Programs Continue to Build on Success CRDG’s Literacy and Hawaiian Education (LHE) office has administered seven grants that have collectively served fifty-one local schools. On average, these schools serve larger percentages of Native Hawaiian students than…

Research Looks at Integration of Early Mathematics Learning

Researchers at CRDG began work in 2002 on Measure Up, a unique elementary mathematics program that uses measurement as the basis for developing understanding of algebraic concepts as early as first grade. The program, based on preliminary work by a…

CRDG Organization

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Donald B. Young, Dean CURRICULUM RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT GROUP Kathleen F. Berg, DirectorHelen O. Au, Assistant Director UNIVERSITY LABORATORY SCHOOL Keoni Jeremiah, PrincipalTracy Teixeira, Dean of StudentsMiki Tomita, Dean of Curriculum and Instruction Three CRDG faculty members…

X to whY: Algebra for Understanding

01. Overview: Helping students shift from arithmetic to algebra Many students experience learning difficulties in mathematics with the shift from arithmetic skills to algebraic ideas in middle and high school. Algebraic concepts and skills are the focus of instruction in…

CRDG Organization

X to whY: Algebra for Understanding

UHM CRDG staff member published as second author in The MIT Press Journals

Congratulations to CRDG’s Dean Lodes as second author on a paper published with the VR team in Presence, The MIT Press Journals. This highlights the Hōkūle‘a as the focus of the VR work and links it to classroom usage. Read article: Kilo Hōkū—Experiencing…

COE CRDG Staff Member Receives $44K Research Award from UH Sea Grant College Program

UH Mānoa College of Education (COE) Assistant Specialist Joanna Philippoff was awarded $44K from the University of Hawai‛i Sea Grant College Program. As part of the two-year grant project, Philippoff and Co-Directors Heather Spalding of the Botany Department and Craig Nelson of…

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