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Developing Resources for CISE REU PIs
Brandi Geisinger is serving as the evaluator for the NSF Developing Resources for CISE REU PIs project. The evaluation will focus on identifying areas of need and evaluating the effectiveness of the web-based resources.
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Developing Virtual Content for STEM Career and Technical Education
Eastern Iowa Community College (EICC) has partnered with RISE to evaluate the development and implementation of virtual training resources for automotive blower, instrumentation, and lighting systems, as well as for home HVAC systems. This web-based virtual training utilizes WebGL for the training platform.
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Education for Women in Agriculture
RISE has worked with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Value Added Agriculture and Women in Agriculture programs to design and implement a sound systematic evaluation process in their courses for women farmers and ranchers.
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Effective Mentoring of Student Researchers Study
RISE researchers Brandi Geisinger, Mari Kemis, and Arlene de la Mora, in conjunction with ISU faculty member Raj Raman, are working to learn about effective and ineffective mentoring strategies for student researchers. This work, funded, in part, by the NSF Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC), originally stemmed out of the realization that mentoring was an…
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Engaging Female Community College STEM Transfer Students
RISE partnered with ISU’s Program for Women in Science (PWSE) to assess the experiences of female community college students who transferred into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields in Fall Semester 2011. The goal of this project was to determine how and when PWSE should be connecting with these students and what existing barriers…
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Evaluation of a Dual Language Program
RISE is working with an Iowa PK-12 school district to evaluate their dual language curriculum option. Students in the program receive half their instruction in English and half in Spanish with the goal of developing both native English speaking and native Spanish speaking students who are bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural.
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Evaluation of AgrowKnowledge
AgrowKnowledge, the National Center for Agriscience and Technology Education, is an Advanced Technician Education project of the National Science Foundation for which RISE serves as external evaluator.
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Evaluation of In-depth Mathematical Practices and Content Teacher Training (IMPACT2)
In order to determine whether project goals have been met, RISE developed an evaluation plan that analyzes data from a variety of sources including teacher and student pre-post knowledge, teacher ratings of and reflections on project activities, and online resources and discussions.
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Expanding IWCC’s Distance Education Capacity
RISE is evaluating Iowa Western Community College’s institutional web-based distance learning program. The program goals include (1) increasing capacity to develop and support online and hybrid courses across general education and high-demand nursing curricula, (2) develop and implement a web portal and flexible online student services that supports web-based programming, and (3) provide extensive faculty…
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Experimental Design Ability Test (Biology 313)
Brandi Geisinger serves as the evaluator for the Principles of Genetics Laboratory at Iowa State University, funded by a Miller Faculty Fellowship Award. This course made improvements to instructional delivery in order to deepen students’ understanding of genetics concepts and research. The evaluation of the instructional changes uses the Sirum and Humburg (2011) Experimental Design…