2007 ANNUAL REPORT - cosmos - Bowling Green State University

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20 NWO Evaluation This year has seen considerable growth for NWO, both with regard to the number of individuals served by the Center and the degree of collaboration within and among NWO partners. In FY <strong>2007</strong>, the Center served on an ongoing basis almost 900 pre-service and in-service teachers and higher education faculty. The increase in participation has had a synergistic effect on collaboration resulting in exciting and new partnerships among and between partners and participants. The success of NWO in serving northwest Ohio educators is evidenced by the FY <strong>2007</strong> evaluation conducted by MetriKs Amérique (Appendix T). The Center’s collaboration with MetriKs led to the development of slightly revised goals to better match with the Center’s activities, evaluation questions, and data sources. The revised goals are to (a) enhance the preparation of pre-service and in-service teachers though research-based professional development focusing on investigative mathematics and science teaching and learning; (b) recruit and retain students into STEM and STEM education disciplines; (c) conduct and communicate collaborative research on how people best teach and learn science and mathematics and/or on the barriers and enablers related to current reform efforts; (d) develop and sustain a regional collaborative alliance including university, school, and community partners through a shared vision and collaborative spirit for tackling current STEM education issues; and (e) increase the leadership capacity for mathematics and science education in northwest Ohio. These goals will be used in FY 2008 to again guide the NWO activities and evaluation plan. 2 0 0 7 N W O C e n t e r o f E xcellence • A n n u a l R e p o r t
In order to determine progress towards these goals, the Center worked with MetriKs to align the Center’s activities with each goal, formulate specific evaluation/research questions for each goal, and identify multiple instruments and data sources that could be triangulated to enhance the validity of the findings. Example: Goal 1: Effective Professional Development Evaluation of the effectiveness of the NWO professional development was accomplished by thematically analyzing and summarizing data gathered from six different sources: 1. Teacher Beliefs and Practices Instrument (TBI survey). 2. Session evaluation data (e.g., written evaluations of the professional development sessions). 3. Faculty interview data. 4. Teacher participant interview data. 5. Professional development session observation data (ratings using Horizons Research PD Observation Protocol) provided by external observers. 6. Other statistics collected by the Center about different activities (e.g., course and program modification documents, PD attendance data, MAT credit hour completion data, and Symposium participant involvement data). Further details on the evaluation methods can be found in the evaluation report (see Appendix T). Highlights of Findings Self-Efficacy and Participant Beliefs about Classroom Practices NWO programs have facilitated a significant increase in participant self-efficacy and participant beliefs about research-based classroom practices. Survey instruments, session evaluations, and interviews revealed that participants experienced greater confidence their ability to be effective leaders of inquiry-based and student-centered learning. I’m definitely a more inquiry-based teacher. I feel that my questioning skills have increased greatly and I have become more of a facilitator and not so much a giver of knowledge. – NWO Inquiry Series Teacher Participant [The students] have to write their own lab procedure, they have to come up with it and of course it’s great because they all come up with a perfect solution and it doesn’t work, so then they have to go back and do the problem solving and it’s a double period, so they have enough time to problem solve this. So it’s fun to do this. – NWO Inquiry Series Teacher Participant 2 0 0 7 N W O Ce n t e r o f E xcellence • A n n u a l R e p o r t 21
Page 1 and 2: NORTHWEST OHIO CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents 2 NWO Mission 2 N
Page 5 and 6: NWO 2007 Annual Report ~ An Introdu
Page 7 and 8: We are equally committed to identif
Page 9 and 10: NWO Activities and Accomplishments
Page 11 and 12: mathematics and a new interdiscipli
Page 13 and 14: Research Learning Community In the
Page 15 and 16: Research in Science and Mathematics
Page 17 and 18: Learning Sciences PhD Program BGSU
Page 19 and 20: NWO Faculty and Staff Scholarship N
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Page 25 and 26: In sum, we are both proud of our FY
Page 27 and 28: The tables below show amounts spent
Page 29 and 30: COSMOS Collaborative Council (CCC)
Page 31 and 32: NWO Projected Goals and Activities
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Appendix K: COSMOS Publicity: RIPE
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Appendix N: 2006-07 REAL Recruiting
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Appendix P: NWO TEAMS Recruiting Br
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Evaluation Question 5: In what ways
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References 71 Appendix 72
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Back to top Original NWO Goals The
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Part II. Evaluation Goals, Question
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Table 1. Alignment of NWO Center Go
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depth information from the particip
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Observations: Horizon’s Classroom
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NWO Symposium: The overall rating f
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Detailed Results for NWO PD Session
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The progress of the NWO Center towa
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students. The also loved foldables.
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Appendix A Higher Education Faculty
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