Year In Review – Page 56 – Curriculum Research & Development Group

Studying Gender, Language, and Mathematics

“The Role of Gender in Language Used by Children and Parents Working on Mathematical Tasks” (GSE) is a three-year study funded by the National Science Foundation. For this research, one hundred parent-child pairs from Hawai‘i public schools will be studied…

Biotechnology Comes to the Classroom

CRDG took part in a joint effort sponsored by the Oregon State and University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant programs and the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology to identify areas of marine biotechnology that could be targeted in high school science…

Physics, Physiology, and Technology Extends Inquiry Curriculum to Grade Ten

Work on the latest inquiry science curriculum, Physics, Physiology, and Technology, has moved out of the Laboratory School to the next level of field testing and revision with the involvement of two cohorts of public school teachers. PP&T, as it…

Invention Factory 2005

CRDG and the Archimedes project, under the guidance of Tom Speitel and Neil Scott, have begun work on the Invention Factory, a three-year, $900,000 project funded by the National Science Foundation. The program will teach information technology to teenagers by…

Arts Education in Windward Schools

Faculty from CRDG’s Program Research and Evaluation (PRE) and Art Sections have teamed with the Hawai‘i Alliance for Arts Education to conduct a U.S. Department of Education funded project that uses strategies from the visual and performing arts to teach…

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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