FCR-STEMLearn: Summer 2014 Institute for Early Secondary Statistics and Probability

Brief Description

This project provided a two-week (11 day) summer institute for 74 secondary-level teachers representing 35 public school districts in Florida. The summer institute was based on two previously designed and implemented professional-development programs developed and delivered by Schoen and colleagues. The summer 2014 institute contained two primary components: content-focused teacher professional development, and development of participant-generated curriculum materials designed to implement the statistics and probability standards. The three concurrent sessions of the summer 2014 statistics institute were delivered by fifteen individuals, working in teams of five, comprised of a university professor in the mathematical sciences, high-school statistics teachers, and curriculum-development experts. Program evaluation used a randomized-controlled trial involving assignment of 180 teachers to the treatment or control condition. The primary outcome of interest in the program evaluation was the short-term and long-term impact on teacher knowledge in statistics and probability.

Support

This project is supported by a grant from the Florida Department of Education Mathematics & Science Partnership program through the U.S. Department of Education’s Mathematics and Science Partnership program.

Grant Award Number

371-2353A-4CM01