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Christian Dieter Schunn - Projects

 
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Christian Dieter Schunn
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
821 Learning Research and Development Center
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
EMAIL: schunn@pitt.edu
  • SCALE science immersion
    SCALE (Systemwide Change for All Learners and Educators). We build and evaluate design-based learning month-long curriculum units for middle and high school science classrooms. We work with large urban school districts to bring out broad performance improvements through leveraged and widespread use of the design-based curriculum units. (More Information...) [http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/schunn/research/design.html]
  • SWoRD
    SWoRD is a web-based reciprocal peer review system. In less fancy terms, students turn their class papers into SWoRD, which then assigns this paper to five or six peers in the class. The peers grade the paper and give advice for how to improve it. Students revise the paper and turn it back in to SWoRD, which distributes the paper to the same peers for final review. SWoRD determines the accuracy of the ratings through a complex process of separating out different kinds of bias in grading. The authors rate the advice given to them in terms of helpfulness. Reviewers get a grade for their work which is one half accuracy and one half helpfulness. In this way, reviewers must work hard and take their task seriously. (More Information...) [http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/schunn/SWoRD/index.html]