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| Name of website | ASCD for the Success of All Learners |
| Address (URL) of website | http://www.ascd.org/ |
| Intended audience (teachers? students?) | Teachers, administrators, parents |
| Possible ways you will use this website | This site has links to news, resources and professional development. I will use it to search for information on Problem Based Learning. The site's search engine found over 2000 hits with 500 sorted for relevance. The top hit is a book by Robert Delisle, How to Use Problem-Based Learning in the Classroom. The introduction and two chapters are published on-line, and the book is available for sale. Some hits require a member's password. |
| Why it's useful for teaching students who are difficult to teach: | This site is useful for those who need a global view of PBL. The first hit explains the theoretical context of PBL, quoting Dewey, the historical context, and current use. One of the chapters that can be viewed on line explains development of the problem and offers a checklist for developing a problem. |
| Name of website | The Development of Student Understanding in a Problem-Based Psychology Course |
| Address (URL) of website | http://kml.carnegiefoundation.org/gallery/bcerbin/ |
| Intended audience (teachers? students?) | undergraduate students in educational psychology |
| Possible ways you will use this website | This site offers several PBL examples designed for adult learners. It could be used as a resource for developing in-service professional development of PBL. |
| Why it's useful for teaching students who are difficult to teach: | Five problems are given on this site as well as class materials, definitons, and lectures. Graduate students who are having a hard time seeing how PBL can be used with adults would find this site useful and practical. |
| Name of website | IMSA Center for Problem-Based Learning |
| Address (URL) of website | http://www.imsa.edu/team/cpbl/cpbl.html |
| Intended audience (teachers? students?) | teachers, parents, administrators |
| Possible ways you will use this website | This site has a PBL tutorial, a comparison between PBL and traditional methods, instructions for developing/designing PBL units, and model problems. (The problems from American Studies do not seem to be linked.) The site links to the ASCD Problem Log, a newsletter for PBL that offers many PBL ideas and lessons. |
| Why it's useful for teaching students who are difficult to teach: | This site provides information about person to person connections at conferences and institutes, an Internet List Serve to facilitate day to day dialogue among practitioners, multidimensional PBL Web Page, PBL NET start-up and continuation support, publishing support for The Problem Log, and hosting the PBL Forum at the ASCD annual Conference. |
| Name of website | Center for Advanced Research and Technology |
| Address (URL) of website | http://www.cart.org |
| Intended audience (teachers? students?) | parents, students, educators |
| Possible ways you will use this website | This site provides information about a 11-12th grade high school in California that is designed to use PBL in combination with a business-style organization. It is useful in offering a vision of PBL as educational reform. |
| Why it's useful for teaching students who are difficult to teach: | A high school designed based upon the principles of PBL would provide reasons for students who want to know why what they are learning is relevant and important. This site also offers encouragement to those who would have PBL take a greater role in education of our secondary students. |
| Name of website | Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction |
| Address (URL) of website | http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/pbl/ubuytutor/index.html |
| Intended audience (teachers? students?) | teachers, students |
| Possible ways you will use this website | Problem solving process is clearly outlined for teachers and includes a clever page describing how people solve problems. The site also includes a problem template, suggestions to the tutor, questions and answers relevant to UBUYACAR for the tutor, debt to income ratio, generic assessment template, group and PBL experience evaluations, and resources for UBUYACAR project. |
| Why it's useful for teaching students who are difficult to teach: | This site will be useful to middle school algebra teachers. The problem here is presented in such a way that a teacher new to PBL could try out the approach and gain some experience with PBL before designing an original unit. |
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| Address (URL) of website | http://www.newcastle.edu.au/services/iesd/learndevelop/problarc/ |
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| Address (URL) of website | http://www.cotf.edu/ |
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| Address (URL) of website | http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/97/reservation/teacher.html |
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| Address (URL) of website | http://edweb.sdsu.edu/clrit/learningtree/Ltree.html |
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| Address (URL) of website | http://www.edcoe.k12.ca.us/tech/pbl.html |
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Annotated Bookmarks List
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/www4teach/98/mnavik/homepage.htm
Mrs. Navik’s Home Page
http://neiu.blackboard.com/?bbatt=Y
General Professional Information
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=02newkirk.h20
Thomas Newkirk presents in Education Week a case against the
trend toward using rubrics in the instruction of creative arts like composition.
http://www.ncte.org/inbox/currentissue.html
NCTE Inbox
http://www.nytimes.com/mo/day/yr
The New York Times
http://www.washingtonpost.com
The Washington Post.
http://www.middleweb.com/LatestUpdates.html
Middle School News
http://www.faithwriting.homestead.com
Sue Butler includes sample journal writing exercises in the web site
for her new Bible-based writing curriculum Icthus Ink.
http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock’s general guide
DESIGN CURRICULUM & BRAINSTORM IDEAS!
ALPS, Harvard's online Teachers Lab, includes model
lesson plans and activities; curriculum design tools; online educational
publications; interactive forums, workshops and conferences. At this page,
you'll find resources that can help you design curriculum and brainstorm
teaching ideas, including "The Collaborative Curriculum Design Tool" to
create unit designs by yourself or by using the built-in collaboration
features. Requires free registration. http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/bigideas/q4.cfm
Useful Web Sites on Educational and Gifted Program Evaluation
Name of website Planning Evaluation Service Frequently Asked Questions
(part of the U.S. Department of Education website)
Address (URL) of website http://www.ed.gov/offices/OUS/PES/eval_faq.html
Intended audience This site is for anyone interested in general
information about evaluation of educational programs.
Possible ways to use this website Although the FAQ page warns
that the content of these pages is not to be used as guidance for conduct
of an evaluation, I found the information useful in understanding the structure
of evaluation. The site explains what questions an effective evaluation
must answer and what information if must include. Evaluation methods
are compared and discussed. Advice is given about how to get the
greatest number of responses and what the minimum percentage for validity
is. Questionnaire design information
Quality/Quantity The pages are easy to link to and all links
are complete.
Example of a Program Evaluation Model
Name of website Education Program Evaluation at NSF: What Difference
Does It Make?
Address (URL) of website http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/REC/publications/NSF_EF/chubin.htm
Intended audience Chubins has written a reflective piece
for those interested in evaluation of National Science Foundation projects.
Possible ways to use this website This site explains the program
evaluation model used by NSF. By following the design of the evaluation,
I could replicate the process in my school district for the ET Program.
Chubins also has included a page of definitions germane to evaluation.
Quantity /Quality The visual representations of the Program Evaluation
are clear examples which could be modified.
Pathways to School Improvement
Name of website North Central Regional Educational Laboratories
Literacy Evaluation Tools
Address (URL) of website http://www.ncrel.org/
Intended audience Educators who are involved in school improvement
plans would find this site to be useful.
Possible ways to use this website This site is interactive and
allows the user to customize a School Improvement Inventory profile.
For each section, a “Critical Issue” is examined. Each Critical Issue
has eight components: issue statement, overview, goals, action options,
implementation pitfalls, different points of view, illustrative cases and
contacts. There is also a searchable database of summaries.
I linked to Evaluation tools for a literacy program. The site took
me to steps for establishing a committee, building a knowledge base, conducting
a needs assessment, Formulating questions to focus the monitoring, collecting
information, organizing and analyzing information, and taking action.
Examples of a letter and a worksheet for identifying roles are included.
Quality/Quantity The major fault with this site is that the user
can not save a work in progress but must complete the effort at one sitting
or lose his work.
Evaluating Your Own Program
Name of website Taking Stock: A Practical Guide to Evaluating
Your Own Programs
Address (URL) of website http://www.horizon-research.com/publications/stock.pdf
Intended audience This site is intended for those considering
the merits and procedures of an internal evaluation of any educational
organization or program.
Possible ways to use this website I will use this website to
better understand the process of evaluation and develop a model suitable
for my program. It contains examples of both formative and summative
models, questions, methods of making sense of data, and a glossary of terms.
The site contains 97 pages that may be viewed on Adobe Acrobat. Paper
copy is available for $25.
Quantity/Quality This is a complete program. Although it
is not possible to print it from the internet, all the information and
pages are available to view. It is probably worth the $25.
Statistics on Gifted Education in Illinois
Name of website Gifted Education in IllinoisSchool Year 2000,
1999, 1998
Address (URL) of website http://www.isbe.state.il.us/research/Gifted00.htm
Intended audience These pages would be useful to educators, administrators,
and researchers who are trying to compare present conditions in Illinois
with past years.
Possible ways to use this website This site has tables which
represent selected results collected from 786 school districts with Gifted
programs. It give the number of students receiving Gifted services,
at what levels they are offered, in what categories students were identified,
training of professional staff, gender, race, grade level, high school,
middle school and elementary program types, areas of learning in high schools,
middle schools, and elementary schools. This will be useful for me
in providing historical and background information to the evaluation proposal.
Quantity/Quality This site is thorough and appears to have accurate
data.
NAGC Program Evaluation Standards
Name of website Gifted Education Programming Criterion: Program
Evaluation
Address (URL) of website http://www.nagc.org/table4.htm
Intended audience Gifted coordinators, parents, teachers,
and administrators would be interested in this site.
Possible ways to use this website This site offers a rubric of
criterion for program evaluation based on guiding principles. The
minimum standards and the exemplary standards are explicated. This
should provide the hallmark for the evaluation of the program.
Quantity/Quality Four principles guide this evaluation instrument.
Glossary of Terms Related to Gifted Education
Name of website A Glossary of Gifted Education Giftedness and
education from the perspective of sociologic social psychology
Address (URL) of website http://members.aol.com/svennord/ed/GiftedGlossary.htm
Intended audience Students and parents could use this site to
better understand the terms used by the practitioners. I found it
useful in offering concise statements of elemental theories like constructivism.
Possible ways to use this website I will use this site to provide
the basis for the definition of terms for my evaluation model.
Quality/Quantity This site was very complete and easy to use.
Criterion for an Effective Program
Name of website Education for the Gifted Child What Constitutes
an Effective Program?
Address (URL) of website http://www.baycongroup.com/education/ed_gifted.htm
Intended audience Parents, teachers, coordinators, administrators,
and board members would find the information in this site to be a
helpful beginning point for discussing the need for evaluation of a program.
Possible ways to use this website I might use this a discussion
vehicle for a focus group at the onset of the evaluation or before to establish
the need for evaluation.
Quantity/Quality This site is brief and to the point.
Postings of NAGC Conference Power Points
Name of website National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented
Address (URL) of website http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/curry/dept/edes/gifteded/NRC/projects/projectframeset/frameset.htm
Intended audience This site is intended for those who attended
the NAGC Conference and did not receive copies of the handouts.
Possible ways to use this website The information provided in
these Power Points could serve as the foundation of explanations to focus
groups or participants in an evaluation of the program.
Quality/Quantity Not all the handouts are posted. However,
the site does like to other useful and relevant articles and executive
summaries (“Instruments Used in the Identification of Gifted and Talented
Students,” and “Evaluation of the Effects of Programming Arrangements on
Student Learning Outcomes.”
Educational Research Links
Name of website The Texas Education Agency
Address (URL) of website http://www.tea.state.tx.us/research/ed_links.htm