Are iPads the Answer? Investigating Achievement and Engagement in Second Grade Mathematics Classrooms.
Join Rachael Schuetz, Instructor, teacher and counselor education and elementary cohort lead, on Wednesday, April 13 from 12 -1pm at Cascades Hall 107 who will share findings from her classroom experiment, examining the effects of an iPad-based math intervention, as compared to a traditional paper-pencil approach, on second graders’ achievement and engagement in mathematics.
With millions of dollars invested in educational technology, understanding its impact on student achievement is imperative.
Classroom pre-post assessments include one test of engagement and two tests of achievement. Focus group data from the teacher perspective provides a complete view of student engagement. With finite intervention time and resources, schools need to know how to best improve student achievement in mathematics.
Schuetz is an instructor and elementary cohort lead in the master’s in teaching program at OSU-Cascades. Rachael is a national board certified teacher who has enjoyed teaching in the primary grades over the last ten years in Eugene, Arizona, and in the Bend LaPine Schools. In 2012, she was honored as a finalist for the Bend LaPine Schools Teacher of the Year award. Rachael is in her final year of the D.Ed doctorate program and is conducting research in the area of educational technology in the early elementary mathematics classroom.
Information contact info@osucascades.edu or 541-322-3100.
