MSTE
Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education, University of Illinois
MSTE News
4/24/2013
Related Link: Community & Campus Day of Service
Thank you to everyone who made the Day of Service a great success! 81,044 meals were delivered to the Eastern Illinois Foodbank on Monday, and there were between 1,000 and 1,100 volunteers throughout the day on the food packaging project alone! The College of Fine and Applied Arts' Action Research Illinois and Austin’s Day also had many volunteers show up, for a total of around 1,400 volunteers just that we know of – not bad for a day’s work!
4/18/2013
Related Link: MSTE Friday Lunch
Join us for the last MSTE Friday Lunch of the spring semester with Chuck Secolsky!
Date & Time: Friday, April 19, 2013 from noon-1pm
Location: Classroom 201, 505 E. Green St., Champaign, IL
Topic: How Students in Statistics Classes Process Mathematics
Description: The focus of this study was students' thought processes underlying their responses to questions on a statistics exam. Two innovative measurement procedures were used to study the underlying processes:
- Differences between the student and instructor perceived topics measured by the questions
- Students' conceptual distances of the topics used to construct the exam
By calculating various statistics of the student-teacher differences (including the Euclidean distance and a map of students' conceptual distances), the collected data and the correctness of students' actual answers on the exam can be useful to instructors and math coordinators/chairpersons for evaluating performance on a unit of study.
Don't forget to RSVP on the Friday Lunch webpage!
4/12/2013
Related Link: Community & Campus Day of Service
The First Annual Day of Service is coming up soon, and the Office of Public Engagement has released 2 promotional videos:
Let us know what you think! You can comment on Facebook or tweet using the hashtag #CUDayOfService!
About the Day of Service:
The First Annual Day of Service will take place on Saturday, April 20, 2013! Members of the local community and University of Illinois faculty, staff, and students will join forces to kick off National Volunteer Week 2013, which will take place from April 21-27.
Hundreds of volunteers are needed for a food packaging project as well as a number of other projects being planned to benefit the local community. Or plan your own community service project and let us know about it!
Visit the Day of Service website to learn more!
