The Effect of Math Sprint Competition in Student Achievement on SOL MathematicsTests at Camelot Elementary School Faculty Mentor: Dr. Darnell Johnson Abstract: Given Virginia’s Standards of Learning (SOL) (1995) mandates, Virginia’s elementary teachers and school leaders utilized research for teaching methods that encouraged gains on the end of course mathematics tests. The relationship between teacher motivation methods and student achievement on Virginia’s End of Course SOL Test for elementary deserves investigation. Virginia’s elementary students in grades three, four and five must maintain an annual pass rate to meet Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) as recommended by the national “No Child Left Behind Act” of 2001. Camelot Elementary School is a Title I school housing high concentrations of minority students who normally achieve lower test score gains than students in other schools. Camelot has a student population receiving at least seventy percent free and reduced lunch nested in a low middle class neighborhood in Chesapeake, Virginia. This research was based on school effectiveness by developing and testing hypotheses about the specific relationships between student competition and state wide testing results in elementary mathematics in grades three and five at Camelot Elementary School in Chesapeake, Virginia. The study compiled data from the “Math Sprint Competition”, a series of student group related reviews of state released test items in a math test relay format. Research focused on methods for motivating an experimental group of students motivated by the use of a math sprint competition from 2005 to 2007 versus a control group of elementary students in mathematics for grades three and five from 2002 to 2004. Student learning activities were compared from teaching methods that included: direct instruction, problem-based learning, technology aided instruction, cooperative learning, manipulative, models, and multiple representations, communication, and study skills. A group of twenty-four elementary teachers from Camelot Elementary School participated in this research to ascertain how frequently they used research-based teaching methods and determined the influence of teaching methods on their students’ achievement. A multiple regression analysis was used to show results from a 40-item state wide test for each grade level. Individual Pearson Product Moment Correlations were conducted to determine which variables possess strong and statistically significant relationships. This analysis determined if gains on the end of the year SOL scores were a result of an impact of the series of math sprint competitions used as motivators before each benchmark assessment leading to the SOL tests in 3rd and 5th grade mathematics. |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Mission Planning to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Shah Keshmiri
Graduate Student Mentor: Rylan Jager
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), University of Kansas
Abstract:
The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) is developing an
Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for application as a sensor platform in
Polar Regions. Existing certification and flight regulations in
Greenland do not adequately address the aircraft’s larger size, nor
have vehicles of this type been previously operated in the area. This
paper will address some of the preliminary efforts undertaken to
coordinate and fly the Meridian UAV in Greenland, beginning in 2008.
Developing Standards and Practices for Archiving Multimedia Material:
Faculty Mentor: Jeff Wood
Abstract:
The Center for Excellence in Remhttp://nia.ecsu.edu/ur/0607/teams/mmt/index.htmlote Sensing Education and Research (CERSER) at Elizabeth City State University is an umbrella for several funded projects. These projects include: The Northeastern Chapter of the IEEE-GRSS Society, The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), NOAA's Educational Partnership Program at ECSU, The Undergraduate Research Experience in Ocean and Marine Science Program (URE OMS), as well as the Undergraduate Research Experience Program supporting undergraduate research at ECSU. These programs entail numerous special events that generate both video and photographic images. Reports and other documentation are also created to record the success and progress of each program.
A
standard method of digitizing images, movies, and documents and
documenting the attributes of these digitized files was developed
during this project. Standard procedures utilizing the equipment
currently in place were developed, tested, and refined in order to
convert VHS formatted tapes and developed photographs into digital
files. Software such as CapWiz and Hewlett-Packard flatbed scanning
software were used to complete this process. These files were then
annotated in a Microsoft Access database utilizing the Dublin Core
Element Set as a standard. A combination of Microsoft Access and Active
Server pages was then utilized to provide access to the digitized
images and the attached metadata via the web.