Projects

Research Experience through Projects
The most important vehicle for hands-on experience in the learning sciences master’s program is the student’s research projects, the primary purpose of which is to provide genuine research experience. In most cases, students spend the winter quarter becoming acquainted with the research activities (e.g., lab meetings) of faculty whose research programs make them good candidates as research advisors.

By the beginning of the spring quarter, students are expected to have selected a research advisor and negotiated a coherent piece of research work to be undertaken as their project. This work will generally focus on the design implementation and/or evaluation of an educational artifact (e.g., a unit of a curriculum, a piece of educational software or a professional development program). Work on the project then begins in the spring quarter (by which time other program requirements have become quite modest) and continues through the summer quarter (during which there are no other program requirements).

• Learning Sciences Projects Listing
• Learning Sciences Students Present Constructionist Design Projects
• SESP Assists with Lincoln Park Zoo Pond Project
• Learning Sciences Student Seeks to Improve Drug Labels