Relevancy Enhancement
Achieved by Laboratories and Lecture Integrated for Engineering Education (REAL
LIFE) Adoption of a Relevant Undergraduate Curriculum
This
project will increase retention of engineering students by implementing a model
based on successful engineering curriculum reform efforts. The model has been
implemented and tested through a NSF Course, Curriculum and Laboratory
Improvement award with great success.
Sponsor: NSF
Engineering: Alan R. Cheville
This project prepares children and youth with disabilities
to meet challenging state standards and make successful transitions to adult
life through the establishment of a sustainable model of personnel preparation
and professional development. The
partnership with Perry Public Schools redesigns content and delivery of
preservice personnel preparation programs for general/special educators and
related service providers.
Sponsor: Oklahoma
State Department of Education
PIs: Bob Davis,
Terry Stinnett, David Yellin
Content Coaching provides a framework for expanded induction
for elementary teachers targeting the science content area. The project
capitalizes on existing resources, creating a collaborative structure for
supporting systemic change in science education.
Sponsor: Oklahoma
State Regents for Higher Education
PI: Leah Engelhardt
Professional Development Institute for Mentor Teachers
Oklahoma
State University's College of Education, in collaboration with Stillwater
Public Schools, continues to provide Coaching Skills for Effective Teaching, a
funded program to prepare mentor teachers in the state's Residency (induction)
Program to effectively support first year teachers. The program works with
approximately 160 educators throughout the state.
Sponsor: Oklahoma Commission for Teacher
Preparation
PIs: Leah Engelhardt
Stillwater Public Schools, Diana Leggett
OSU Writing Project
An affiliate of the National Writing Project, the OSU
Writing Project is a collaborative school-university program dedicated to
improving the quality of instruction in elementary and secondary schools
through staff development training for teachers. The OSU Writing Project offers
a summer institute for classroom teachers who want to improve their own writing
skills and involve their students in more writing activities. Teachers must
apply to the summer institute and those accepted receive a stipend towards
tuition and books. Participants study current theories of teaching writing and
share their own best practices.
Sponsor: National Writing Project
PIs: Pamela Fry
Department of English, Richard Batteiger and Joye Alberts
Textual Scaffolds for Beginning Readers
This study challenges the past dichotomies and submits an
emerging notion that different textual scaffolds may be used selectively
throughout the reading acquisition process. The study’s purpose will be
to examine the effects of these two formats by holding each to the ultimate
test—whether or not they have the intended long term effect of producing
autonomous readers.
Sponsor: Spencer
Postdoctoral Fellowship
PI: Heidi Mesmer
Examining the Caliber of Books Used with Three-year Olds
in Subsidized Childcare Facilities
This study examines the quality and caliber of books used
with at-risk preschoolers and explores the nature of literacy in preschool
curricula. The project explores the relevance of the intellectual caliber of
the curriculum and quality of literacy materials being used.
Sponsor: American
Educational Research Association
PI: Heidi Mesmer
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate
Programs (GEAR-UP)
The main objective of the program is to work with middle
school students through their high school years to develop skills and
competencies that increase their interest in pursuing college or a technical
career. The program stresses the importance of education, provides career
counseling and information on the availability of scholarships and financial
aid. Summer activities include
book clubs, college prep workshops, opportunities for field trips to
educational and cultural sites, and exposure to campus life.
Sponsor: U.S.
Department of Education/Tulsa Public Schools
PIs: Kouider
Mokhtari, John Romans
The Transfer of Reading Skills from Arabic to English: A
Study of Adult Learners
The focus on this study was to conduct a pilot project to
understand the manner in which enabling skills and strategies for reading
are/are not transferable across languages—in this case Arabic and
English.
Sponsor: Internal Research Grant
PI: Kouider Mokhtari
Knowledge Development for the Technology Integration
Community
This project provides training for teachers to be proficient
in integrating technology into their curriculum and increases the level of
technology integration in teacher education programs. The project is a
collaborative effort and expands upon the foundations set in place by the 21st
Century Chautauqua Project, a Preparing
Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology effort (PT3).
Sponsor: U.S.
Department of Education/University of Missouri
PI: Sandra Goetze
Junior Science and Humanities Symposium
OSU hosted the regional meeting for the JSHS symposium for
high school students from the Oklahoma-Kansas-Nebraska area. Students were
invited to submit their research projects in a competition for scholarships and
awards. Regional winners go the national competition to represent the United
States in an International Youth Science Forum.
Sponsor: Academy of
Applied Science
PIs: Chris Moseley,
Brenda Solomon
Technical & Industrial Educator Development
This service and research grant is a collaborative effort
between ODCTE, 22 technology centers and Occupational Education Studies at UCO
and OSU. Working as a team with local administrators, a local instructional
mentor, and a higher education representative, first-year teachers are able to
identify strengths, challenges, goals, and strategies in order to move from
surviving to thriving in development of the skills for effective teaching.
Sponsors: Oklahoma
Department of Career and Technology Education and Local Technology Centers
PI: Mary Jo Self
Oklahoma Range and Wildlife Ecology Academy
Held at Black Mesa State Park, this six-day summer academy
for twenty tenth through twelfth grade students applied the relationship of
grassland agriculture and ecological sciences to environmental issues and
habitat. Instructors from OSU, USDA-NRCS, BIS, BLM, New Mexico State
University, Colorado State University, SST Technology, Inc. and private
ranchers emphasized problem solving, teamwork, individual development, research
skills, and technical knowledge applied to land management. Students completed
the development of an extensive plant collection, kept daily journals, and
developed a land management plan utilizing satellite imagery and GIS computer
technology in the field.
Sponsor: Oklahoma
State Regents for Higher Education
PI: Christine
Moseley
Star Schools-The New
Millennium: Improving Math and Science in Middle Schools
A principal component of
OSU's Star Schools project focuses on integrating technology into math and science
instruction. Specifically, the World Wide Web will be utilized to deliver
materials and models to train teachers in the use of digital information
storage and management, use of office productivity software, use of educational
software packages, use of multimedia production tools, effective WWW searching
strategies, use of digital communication tools, web development, and
appropriate use of information technology tools in the classroom.
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education
PI: Susan Stansberry