Page 1 Are Students Ready for College Research?
Teresa Diaz Benjamin Harris Eisenhower Middle School Trinity University
Region 20 Round Up September 21, 2012
Page 2 Are they college-ready?
Page 3 What do we know about entering college students?
Page 4 students technology
Page 6 students are confident
Page 7 students are very very confident
Page 8 students manage time
Page 9 students are digital natives
Page 10 73% “info from search engines is trustworthy”
66% “info from search engines is fair and unbiased”
41% “unsure if info from search engines is correct”
Page 11 students are digital natives
Page 12 students are assessment natives
Page 13 What do we know about the expectations of college faculty?
Page 14 enhancing student learning
Page 15 #1: addressing the gaps
Page 16 “left it up to the students”
“underwhelmed by the final products”
Page 17 “less credible sources are chosen”
Page 18 #2: prepare for future courses
Page 19 “a process guided by questions”
Page 20 “evaluating individual works”
“using sources properly”
Page 21 #3: learn content-area-specific research habits
Page 22 “understanding the ancient world”
“becoming themselves interpreters”
Page 23 “integrate findings”
“construct a more coherent understanding”
Page 24 #4: prepare for lifelong learning
Page 25 “evaluate the validity of information in other areas
of their lives”
Page 26 “design a system to meet desired needs”
Page 27 What do we know about teachers’ approaches to course design?
Page 31 What do we know about the impact on student learning?
Page 32 “students genuinely interested”
“topics this semester were creative”
Page 33 “not sure they understand ‘why’”
Page 34 “more developed sense of which sources were best”
“not as consistently skillful at piecing together a coherent analysis”
Page 36 Alignment Brainstorming
1. pick a challenge
2. align outcomes for research skills development w/course/content goals
3. invent an activity or assignment
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