Search results for author:"Deborah Hecht"
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A Technology-Based Innovation To Facilitate Teacher Access to and Use of Assessments of JHS Students' Self-Regulatory, Affective and Motivational Beliefs about Mathematics
Carol Kehr Tittle; Deborah Hecht
The development of the Mathematics Assessment Questionnaire (MAQ), a survey of thoughts and feelings, for students in grades 7 through 9 is described. The adaptation of the MAQ to an on-line, computer-based administration is also described. This...
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A Blended Engineering Design Curriculum for Informal Settings: Wise Guys and Gals
Kristin Sroka; Deborah Hecht; David Burghardt
Global Learn 2019 (Jul 10, 2019) pp. 263–267
Over the past five years, we have created and studied an informal learning STEM program. The results have been very encouraging and led us to examine how our approach and curriculum, originally created for middle school youth, could be used in...
Topics: Blended Learning
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A Tool for Evaluating Youth Engagement in an Informal STEM Setting: The WGG Observation Protocol
Caterina Almendral; Bernadette Uzzi; M. David Burghardt; Deborah Hecht
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2019 (Nov 04, 2019) pp. 443–451
This paper discusses findings from the use of the Wise Guys and Gals (WGG) Observation of WGG Youth Protocol in a blended learning environment. The protocol was used to assess youth engagement when completing blended engineering design challenges...
Topics: Blended Learning, Performance and outcome assessment, Evaluating for quality improvement
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WISEngineering: Supporting precollege engineering design and mathematical understanding
Jennifer L. Chiu; Peter T. Malcolm; Deborah Hecht; Crystal J. DeJaegher; Edward A. Pan; Michael Bradley; M. David Burghardt
Computers & Education Vol. 67, No. 1 (September 2013) pp. 142–155
Introducing engineering into precollege classroom settings has the potential to facilitate learning of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) concepts and to increase interest in STEM careers. Successful engineering design projects ...
Language: English