| An Assessment of the Interdisciplinary Materials Research Program at Pittsburg State University |  |
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2:00 pm - 5D |
| Christopher C. Ibeh, Oliver Hensley, Marjorie Donovan | View
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| The Penn
State NSF-sponsored REU site introduces undergraduate student
and K-12 teacher-participants to the principles, philosophy, and
performance of sound scientific, engineering and technological
research in the laboratories of seventeen PSU professors. The
program is hands-on materials oriented with emphasis on collaborative
and cooperative learning, and mentors its participants to attend
graduate school or become better teachers. One of the key components
of the program's evaluation portfolio is participant satisfaction,
monitored with the CUES-Assessment Model. CUES-AM uses such essential
knowledge elements as validity, usefulness, interest, difficulty,
comprehensiveness and efficacy to assess the participants' satisfaction
level and success of the REU/RET program. |
