POST: Participate in a Federally-Funded Pilot Study- Receive Compe

If you teach students in grade 4, 5, 6, 7,8 or 9, you are
invited to participate in a special pilot study for a
federally funded research project, the e-Learning for
Educators Initiative. This initiative aims to provide
effective online professional development that will improve
teacher content knowledge and teaching practices, and will
ultimately lead to increases in student achievement.

The Technology and Assessment Study Collaborative (inTASC)
at Boston College is conducting a pilot study to examine
the characteristics of test items that will be used in the
large-scale research project and you may be eligible to
participate in this pilot study.

***ELIGIBILITY***

In order to be eligible you must:
*Be a teacher in grades 4- 9
*NOT be a teacher in the following list of states. (The
larger research study will occur in these states and thus
these teachers cannot participate in the pilot study).
Alabama
Delaware
Kentucky
Mississippi
Missouri
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
West Virginia
*Be able to administer an online test to a class of
students.

***COMPENSATION***

All teachers who participate will receive instant feedback
about student performance. You can use this feedback to
assess your students and inform future instruction.

In addition to the feedback about your students�
performance, the first 140 teachers to complete the
requirements (10 in each sub-content area) will receive
$100 for each sub-content area. Completing the
requirements means taking the teacher survey and
administering two online tests to your students.

***REQUIREMENTS***

You can participate in multiple sub-content areas (listed
below). Participation requirements are:

*You will take one online survey, estimated to take 30-45
minutes to complete.

*You will administer two online tests to a class of at
least 15 students. Each test takes one full class period;
the total amount of participation time needed from your
students is two class periods.

These requirements are for EACH sub-content area chosen.
The sub-content areas are:

4th and 5th Grade ELA sub-content areas:
Vocabulary
Reading Comprehension: Narrative
Reading Comprehension: Expository
Writing

5th and 6th Grade Math sub-content areas:
Fractions
Algebraic Thinking
Measurement

7th and 8th Grade ELA sub-content areas:
Vocabulary
Reading Comprehension: Narrative
Reading Comprehension: Expository
Writing

8th and 9th Grade Math sub-content areas:
Proportional Reasoning
Functions
Geometric Measurement

For more information about the study and to sign up, please
visit

http://www.bc.edu/efepilot

or contact the researchers at efe.pilot@bc.edu

The study will begin on or about October 23. Please
register now and we will keep you informed on the exact
start date. We hope you will participate in this important
study!