SENSE IT Evaluation Year 2 (2010-2011)          * To access Year 1 (2009-2010) links, clickHERE.

   For Year 2 summer institutes (teacher only):

• Algebra pre-assessment (Day 1)(Web link)(Coordinates PDF)
  
• Electricity pre-assessment (Day 1)(Web link)
  
• Pile-sorting pre-activity (Day 1)(Web link)
  
  
• Algebra post-assessment (Day 4) (Web link)
  
• Electricity post-assessment (Day 4) (Web link)
  
• Water quality post-assessment, post only (Day 4) (Web link)
  
• Pile-sorting post-activity (Day 4) (Web link)
  
  
• Teacher workshop (end-of-day) daily survey (Everyday, both weeks) (Web link)
  

= FOR STUDENTS =

• Pre-survey
  
• Algebra pre-assessment
  
• Electricity pre-assessment
  
• Pile-sorting pre-activity
  


• Algebra post-assessment
  
• Electricity post-assessment
  
• Water quality post-assessment (post only)
  
• Pile-sorting post-activity
  
• Post-survey
  

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= FOR TEACHERS: LINKS TO SET UP THE ASSESSMENT TOOLS =

• Assessment results (i.e., the Management/Manual entry system)(Web link)
  -- Instructions for teachers(PDF)
  -- Instructions for students(PDF)
  
  
• Pile-sorting activities (online, or on paper)
  -- Instructions (online): Drag and drop the 18 cards into three piles ("Has sensors," "Not sure/Don't know," or "No sensors").
  -- Instructions (on paper): Sort the 18 cards into three piles (see above) and write down the numbers on the worksheet.
  

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= FOR TEACHERS: LIST OF EVALUATION ARTIFACTS =(Checklist PDF)


Teachers

• Pre-survey, to be completed before the project begins(Web link)
  Current SENSE-IT teachers: You don't need to do this again! All of you completed the pre-survey at the Summer 2009 institutes.
  
  
• Post-survey, to be completed after the first course is finished(Web link)
  
• Post-survey, to be completed after the second course (if any) is finished(Web link)
  

Students

   Surveys (web links only, see above)

• Pre-survey, to be completed before the curriculum is implemented
• Post-survey, to be completed after the curriculum is finished

   Assessments (pdf files for printing)

   [Note: If you want your students to use the web versions of the assessments linked to above, you need to have your class rosters uploaded first.]

• Algebra pre-assessment, to be completed before the curriculum is implemented
  
• Electricity pre-assessment, to be completed before the curriculum is implemented
  


• Algebra post-assessment, to be completed after the curriculum is implemented
  
• Electricity post-assessment, to be completed after the curriculum is finished
  
• Water quality post-assessment (post only), to be completed after the curriculum is finished
  

   Other pdf files

• Design logs, during curriculum(PDF)
• Temperature data collection sheet, during curriculum as end-of-unit assessment (PDF)


• Coordinates worksheet (for algebra assessments), before and after curriculum (PDF)


• Pile-sorting activities worksheet, before and after curriculum

**The instruments are available for use or adaptation. For permission, please contact Dr. Susan Lowes.



Evaluators

Institute for Learning Technologies
Teachers College, Columbia University

Dr. Susan Lowes
Director of Research and Evaluation
lowes@tc.edu
(212) 678-8198

Peiyi (Chris) Lin
Research Assistant
pl2151@columbia.edu
(212) 678-8192