Year In Review 2010 – Page 6 – Curriculum Research & Development Group

Partnering with Texas Instruments to Study Assessment in a Networked Classroom

Partnering with the Hawai‘i Department of Education and Texas Instruments to provide TI-Navigator networked classroom systems to fifteen middle schools in Hawai‘i, the Formative Assessment in a Networked Classroom (FANC) project looked at the use of formative assessment practices in…

Grant Funds Study of Technology Facilitated Crimes Against Children

The Multimedia Juvenile Victimization (MJV): Insights into Youth Behavior to Help Law Enforcement project, funded by the US Department of Justice, brought participating school district personnel, law enforcement officers, university researchers, and other interested parties together in fall of 2010…

Innovation in Education

In their presentation at the 2010 Hawai‘i Charter School Administrators’ Conference in Kona, ULS teachers Marybeth Baldwin and Brendan Brennan offered this compelling thought on technology in education: “Up to this point we have been very successful at inadequately preparing…

Designing Educational Systems

Understanding how existing educational systems operate (including curriculum, teaching, learning, and assessment systems) and designing more effective systemic approaches to schooling is an essential component of CRDG’s work. Faculty expertise in program research and evaluation enables CRDG to better understand…

A Systems Approach to Professional Development in Mathematics

The systems approach to teaching and learning informs all of CRDG’s work, but it is perhaps best exemplified in the professional development work conducted by the mathematics faculty. Within their projects, the research and professional development are so intertwined, with…

Category: Year In Review 2010 (page 6)