Oct 06, 2024  
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalogue 
    
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalogue Archived Catalogue

SEC 407 - iSTEM - Project Based Instruction and Assessment


This course addresses the distinctive features of project-based learning and the associated teaching practices. It will provide conceptual tools and analytic skills essential to designing and developing assessment to be applied in a secondary STEM instructional setting. Attention will be given to the essential components of projects, including challenging problems or questions, sustained inquiry, authenticity, student voice and choice, reflection, critique and revision, and public product. The teaching practices that will be addressed include planning, scaffolding student learning, managing activities, and building a culture of inquiry thorugh projects. Students will construct assessments that align with best practices in teaching inquiry-based and project-based design instruction.

Credit Hours: 3

Corequisite Courses: SEC 421 
Course Repeatablility: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3



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