WORKSHOP:

Classroom Assessment and Classroom Research:  Investigating and Improving
Student Learning

Montana State University-Bozeman TL-MSU Project

DATE - TIME - LOCATION

Thursday, January 21, 1999
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
MSU Foundation Building - Great Room
	or
Saturday, January 23, 1999
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
MSU Foundation Building - 2nd floor Board Room

A G E N D A

Introductions, Goals and Overview

A Learning Case:  "The Leslies" by Dr. Jerry Evensky, Syracuse University
Case Discussion- Identifying the Learning Issues

What do we know from Research and Theory about these Learning Issues?

Schema and the Role of Prior Knowledge
Learning Strategies

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)

Samples & Examples
A Few Guidelines
Adapt-a-CAT this Semester
Using CATs to Collect Further Information about the Leslies Case

Classroom Research

What is Classroom Research?
A Classroom Research Example from the Leslies Case

Designing a Classroom Research Project

Generate a Research Question
Develop a Project Prospectus

Option 1: Use the CR Project Prospectus outline to start drafting a
mini-grant application with your TL-MSU Fellow team,

Option 2: As a "warm up" for developing a future minigrant proposal,
discuss the "The Captive Audience" case study (about the discovery-learning
format physics lab) and develop a research question and CR prospectus based
on the case.

Evaluation & Wrap Up

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.  -  Plutarch

PRESENTER:

Mimi Harris Steadman, Ed.D.  Co-author, with K. Patricia Cross, of
Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching.  San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.  For more information, contact Mimi Steadman
at (716) 636-8462 or MHSteadman@aol.com.

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Dr. Carol Thoresen
Science and Engineering For All (SEA) Project
401 Linfield Hall
Montana State University Bozeman
Bozeman, Montana 59717

phone	406-994-1741
fax	406-994-3733
e-mail	thoresen@montana.edu
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