Effectiveness of After-School Tutoring
July 17th, 2009
After school tutoring programs have been widely implemented in the past few years and we are now beginning to get some research results from them.
Debbie Viadero over at Inside School Research reviews some of these studies and the end result isn’t very positive. Most indicate the participating students show little or no gain. Chicago’s implementation [...]
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Modeling STEM Participation
July 10th, 2009
So, you’re a big school district or university and you want to put some initiatives in place to help increase the number of students interested in STEM careers. But what changes will have the biggest effect? Will some changes have negative effects you haven’t thought about yet? If you change multiple things, what would be [...]
Tags: statistical modeling, STEM interest
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Prepared for College-Level Math Courses?
July 6th, 2009
There has been a long debate about the best way to teach math, and very recent discussion about high schools preparing college-ready students. Both issues were raised by a recent article in the American Educational Research Journal.
In the early 1990’s the National Science Foundation funded the creation of 13 mathematics programs that were mostly problem [...]
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