Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting
East Tennessee
State University is happy to host the 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASTE
Conference.
Proposal Form -
Deadline is August 25, 2010
Registration Form
We have begun the process of putting
together a draft of the program, which will be sent via email to
all presenters early in September. As a reminder, the dates of
the conference are September 24 - 25, 2010 (September 23 at 7:00
PM for preconference workshop). Please submit your registration
and make your hotel reservations as soon as possible if you have
not done so already. (See
attached)
The conference hotel is the Carnegie Hotel & Spa with a
conference rate of $92.00/night + tax available for the nights
of September 23, 24, and 25. Lodging arrangements for the 2010
conference must be made by the individual. Call: toll-free #
866-757-8277. The hotel (1216 W. State of Franklin Road, Johnson
City, TN 37604) is directly across the street from campus with
handicapped accessible walkway over State of Franklin Road.
Please tell the reservation desk that you are registering for
the Mid-Atlantic ASTE conference and indicate which nights you
wish to stay.
The Hotel Reservations deadline is September 9. 2010.
For travel directions go to their website
http://www.carnegiehotel.com/.
We have a special
session on Thursday night for those who are interested:
Dr. Bill Boone of Miami
University (Ohio) will present an introductory hands-on “Rasch
Measurement in Science Education Workshop”. Rasch measurement is
now being used as a key component of analyses of survey and test
data in the fields of education and medicine. The technique is used
to develop measurement instruments (surveys, tests), evaluate many
aspects of reliability and validity of such devices, and convert
non-linear (ordinal) data into scale scores which are then used for
statistical tests. Participants will be taught how to conduct an
analysis of survey (questionnaire) data using free Rasch “Ministeps”
software. [Ministeps is identical to a full copy of the widely used
Winsteps Rasch software, but analyses are limited to 25 items and 75
respondents with the free software. Winsteps, the full software
package costs less than $200.] By the end of the workshop
participants will have learned enough techniques so that they can
conduct their own Rasch analysis with science education (and math
education) survey and test data!
We also
have a Gray Fossil Site Tour and Dig on Saturday afternoon after the
business meeting.
http://www.grayfossilmuseum.com/
(Now called the
"East Tennessee State University and General Shale Brick Natural
History Museum" - quite a mouthful.)
To get the latest
news about the conference, go to
http://ma-aste.org.
Hope y'all can
come!
Aimee
Dr. Aimee Lee Govett, Associate Professor
Center for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Education
Masters of Arts in Teaching Co-Coordinator
East Tennessee State University
Box 70301
Johnson City, TN 37614
office 423-439-7678
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