Project Objectives
- Project faculty and personnel will customize and implement a
sustainable, secure web-based eLearning Community (eLC) to meet the
project's needs for interactive communication, to archive and disseminate
information and data, and to share resources among faculty researches,
program student-teachers, and program completer cohorts at distance.
- Project faculty and personnel will design and establish a sustainable
qualitative and quantitative data collection infrastructure that will allow
for analysis of program completers' impact on the academic achievement and
English language development of LEP student children, before and after
curricular modifications.
- Project faculty will study and analyze available qualitative and
quantitative data from experimental student teachers and program completers
cohort groups, including the existing curriculum and the TExES teacher
certification exam data, in order to set forth empirically based
recommendations for modifications to the program curriculum.
- Project faculty, in conjunction with the chair of the Department of
Curriculum and Instruction, the Dean of the College of Education, and the
Vice President of Undergraduate Programs will build capacity to
institutionalize the use of the eLC and the project infrastructure for
qualitative and quantitative data collection processes to allow for
continued analyses of the impact program completers are having on the
academic achievement and English language development of the LEP student
children they serve in the Texas Educational Region 1.