The 8th Symposium on Education

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THE DATASTREME PROJECT- K-12 TEACHER ENHANCEMENT THROUGH DISTANCE-LEARNING

Robert S. Weinbeck, SUNY, Brockport, NY; and I. W. Geer, E. J. Hopkins, J. M. Moran, and B. E. Blair

The DataStreme Project, a unique National Science Foundation-funded K-12 teacher enhancement program of the American Meteorological Society, is now in its third year of national implementation. This update report on the status of DataStreme will review the project organization and implementation strategy. The success of the Project will be shown in its numbers of implementation teams operating and the number of teachers trained through the distance-learning course, the centerpiece of DataStreme. Comparisons of the status of the Project and its design goals for this point in its evolution are presented. DataStreme evaluations through surveys of participants, both during and after taking the course are shown for comparative and longitudinal study. New evaluation results that were added to the original methodology design and bearing more directly on participant learning are also given. Finally, DataStreme’s congruence with the National Science Education Standards, which were not in existence at the time of the project’s conception, will be demonstrated

The 8th Symposium on Education