DELTA Project Receives Additional Grant
The Diagnostic E-Learning Trajectories Approach (DELTA) Project received a $395,000 grant from Qualcomm, Inc for a one-year project titled “Building Learning Progress Profiles (LPP) Synchronized for Rational Number Reasoning with Socially Networked Wireless Devices: Wireless LPP Sync.” The project will explore the use of smart cell phones as a tool to improve educational outcomes through delivery of customized assessment environments in conjunction with location-based resources, collaborative learning, peer mentoring, and social engagement.
As an extension of the existing DELTA project, Wireless LPP Sync will build upon the study’s learning trajectory research. The team will design, implement, and study a model of wireless device use that leverages social networking to develop diagnostic “learning progress profiles” in the mathematics topics of rational number reasoning across grades K-7. It will also examine the feasibility of using smart cell phones to provide valid and reliable diagnostic information to teachers on student learning in the context of student learning.
More information about the DELTA project can be found here and here.