Executive Summary Overview

Jersey experience grade-appropriate engineering curricula with a focus on innovation. CIESE launched a pilot study in spring 2006, which engaged 35 teachers from 32 ethnically, socio-economically, and geographically diverse elementary, middle and high schools throughout New Jersey. This evaluation study concerned the high school portion of the pilot, which involved 498 students from 17 classrooms (average class size of 29 students), spanning grades 9-12. The eleven teachers involved in the pilot had various teaching assignments including physics, physical science, conceptual physics, honors physics, AP physics, technology, and pre-engineering. All teachers were provided with instructional materials and attended a two-day professional development program on a new curriculum that had been develope