Description The purpose of the assignment is to have students develop and execute a research project in applied statistics using large publicly available data sets. The work of the assignment includes hypothesis generation, data visualization, statistical testing, and analysis. In addition to writing an analytic narrative of their work, students will be required to disseminate… Read more »
Description This assignment–Developing and Hosting an Online Lesson–is the signature project in the second to the last course in the Masters in Teaching and Learning with Technology program. It asks students to develop a robust educational learning module and then host it on a website. A culminating activity in the program, it is intended to… Read more »
Description In this two-part assignment, students are asked to prepare an oral presentation and write a paper that integrates their knowledge from their course of study in computer science, computer information systems or mathematics. The basis for these talks and papers is generally the student’s experience working on a year-long research project, a service learning… Read more »
Description This assignment is the final scholarly paper in a core capstone course entitled–The Human Costs of Inequality– which surveys economic, racial, and gender-based inequality within the US and across the globe. It asks students to identify a form of inequality not discussed in the course and to propose/critique possible solutions. It has proven powerful… Read more »
Description This assignment uses a social science perspective to help students think about the building blocks of a society. The idea at the foundation of the assignment is to encourage the students to move beyond what we learned in the classroom and apply these concepts to real world issues. In their assignment, students are expected… Read more »
