Funded primarily by the National Science Foundation (NSF), our work involves the reform of science education, with a particular focus on urban middle schools.  We develop curricula (including technology tools and student reading materials) to promote inquiry-based science aligned with the National Science Education Standards.  The aspects of the project relevant to this posting are data collection in public schools, description of teaching practices. and assessment of student performance.  This involves administration and scoring of student assessments, collection and scoring of student artifacts, videotaping and analyzing videotaped enactments, data base entry, and interviewing of students and teachers.

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Student Tasks and Responsibilities:  Students will be involved in organization of the research effort and management of data and data collection. They may participate in scoring student assessments and artifacts, videotaping in Detroit Public School classrooms, interviewing students, coding data qualitatively, analyzing data quantitatively, writing brief reports of activities, and attending research meetings.