Evaluation Question Specific Attitude Measured: Analysis Plan Measure Used How anxious do students Math Anxiety: Math Anxiety Descriptive Statistics: Means feel about EDRS 811? Scale and Standard Deviations Math Attitudes: Student What are student attitudes Descriptive Statistics: Means Attitudes Toward Statistics towards EDRS 811? and Standard Deviations Scale How much do students Task Value: Student Descriptive Statistics: Means value the content learned in Attitudes Toward Statistics and Standard Deviations EDRS 811? Scale How do math students’ anxiety, attitudes towards statistics, and values Math Anxiety Scale; Math T-tests/One-Way ANOVA change from the beginning Attitude Scale to the completion of EDRS 811? Timeline: Upload survey onto Mason WebSurvey April 17, 2010 First email to recruit student participants April 19, 2010 Second reminder email to recruit student participants April 26, 2010 Clean and analyze data April 28, 2010 Submit final evaluation report May 6, 2010 Recruitment: Students will be recruited online through email. The program manager for the Ph.D. in Education office (Joan Stahl) will provide the emails of students for me to send electronic surveys through online survey software. GMU’s Students who are enrolled in Ways of Knowing will be recruited as students who have yet to take EDRS 811. Students who have completed Portfolio Review II will be considered as post-EDRS 811 students. These emails will be provided by Joan Stahl. To confirm the EDRS 811 completion status of students, an additional question on the survey will ask if students have yet to, are currently enrolled in, or have already completed EDRS 811.
Evaluation Question Specific Attitude Measured: Measure Used Analysis Plan How anxious do students feel about EDRS 811? Math Anxiety: Math Anxiety Scale Descriptive Statistics: Means and Standard Deviations What are student attitudes towards EDRS 811? Math Attitudes: Student Attitudes Toward Statistics Scale Descriptive Statistics: Means and Standard Deviations How much do students value the content learned in EDRS 811? Task Value: Student Attitudes Toward Statistics Scale Descriptive Statistics: Means and Standard Deviations How do students’ math anxiety, attitudes towards statistics, and values change from the beginning to the completion of EDRS 811? Math Anxiety Scale; Math Attitude Scale T-tests/One-Way ANOVA Timeline: Upload survey onto Mason WebSurvey April 17, 2010 First email to recruit student participants April 19, 2010 Second reminder email to recruit student participants April 26, 2010 Clean and analyze data April 28, 2010 Submit final evaluation report May 6, 2010 Recruitment: Students will be recruited online through email. The program manager for the Ph.D. in Education office (Joan Stahl) will provide the emails of students for me to send electronic surveys through GMU’s online survey software. Students who are enrolled in Ways of Knowing will be recruited as students who have yet to take EDRS 811. Students who have completed Portfolio Review II will be considered as post-EDRS 811 students. These emails will be provided by Joan Stahl. To confirm the EDRS 811 completion status of students, an additional question on the survey will ask if students have yet to, are currently enrolled in, or have already completed EDRS 811.