Strategic Alliance to Advanced Technological Education through Enhanced Mathematics, Science, Technology, and English Education at the Secondary Level

Overview & Synopsis

This document (book) reports on the Strategic Alliance to Advance Technological Education through Enhanced Mathematics, Science, Technology, and English Education at the Secondary Level, funded by National Science Foundation. It was a collaborative partnership involving the Rockford Public Schools, Rock Valley College, and Northern Illinois University to provide extensive professional development for teachers with the primary goal to improve secondary student achievement in MST. Following professional development, teachers conducted classroom research. All staff development models, program content, process, tools, problems and issues, research and evaluation results are provided for 7 years; teachers participated in MSTE (English) teams; full text and data is available at the website www.strategicalliance.niu.edu. The American Association of Higher Education published the book in CD format; since then, the organization has disbanded; permission was granted to have the full text available on the NIU website and in ERIC. Primary chapters include literature reviews to date of publication. The document is intended to serve as a complete professional development resource with a variety of tools. Many voices provide perspectives across its chapters. The primary program scope is fully described and content revealed as well as other workshop content, e.g. student performance assessment, teaching models are primary development areas; additional workshops to move teachers towards technology and inherent mathematics/sciences, e.g. Astronomy and Navigation, GIS, etc. The research design, methodology, analysis, and results are provided. [Abstract modified to meet ERIC guidelines.]