Evaluation Outcomes
NO LIMIT! Grant Project Impact on Teachers
- Technology Changes Teaching
- Enhanced Anchored Instruction Enhances Teaching
- Project Based Learning Enhances Teaching
- Teachers Disseminated the Grant Project
- Grant Project Challenges
NO LIMIT! Grant Project Impact on Students
- Technology Motivated Students and Helped Them to Learn
All of the teachers (n = 6) had their technology set up in the front of the classroom in a way that allowed constant access. They also had their technology turned on for the entire class period. In all of the classes observed the students appeared fluent in the use of the technology and routinely used the ACTIVboard. In one class a non verbal student was able to participate in class by writing things on the ACTIVboard. In this class students coached each other on the use of the ACTIVboard. For example, they showed each other how to erase, change to a pen, and pick a new page.The teachers were most likely (86% strongly agreed) to report that the NO LIMIT! grant had increased student motivation to participate in mathematics activities.
- "They’re very tech literate. Their tech IQ is off the charts. They work fluently between paper and pencil to Internet, Elmo [document camera] and ACTIVboard and don’t think twice. It’s just another attempt to get the info in there."
- "Students want to learn math, they enjoy the hands on capability of using the document camera to show how they have solved a problem. They enjoy sharing their thought processes with other students using the document camera as well as the ACTIVboard. The ACTIVboard has enabled them to demonstrate concepts and reinforce concepts through electronic manipulatives and the large-screen tools."
- "[The Interactive Whiteboard [was] really useful for graphing. The kids could come up and graph something and change the color as they would like."
- "The technology such as the doc camera and the ACTIVboard has had the greatest impact on student success and mathematical exploration."
- Spring Teacher Survey Results of the Impact of the Grant on Students (graph)