Tottionna Bushell
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
UROP Fellowship: Community College Summer Fellowship Program
Schoolcraft College
Research Mentor(s): Amanda Milewski, PhD
School of Education: Educational Studies
Presentation Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 | Session 3 | Presenter: 3
Authors: Amanda Milewski, Tottionna Bushell, and Carolyn Hetrick
Abstract
In this project, we have begun the work of creating scenario-based interview instruments that will be used eventually to study how a long-standing out-of-school program, called the Math Corps, shapes students’ perceptions of mathematics and themselves as mathematics learners. The Math Corps is a 6-week summer intensive program for middle and high school students in Detroit that has not only demonstrated ways that it has improved students’ mathematical fluency but also managed to build a program in which students feel loved, like they belong, and encouraged to find and express their unique place in the community.
In this summer project, we used prior research describing the site to begin developing scenarios that represent the ways instruction at the Math Corps differs from that of schooling. We piloted these scenarios with four Math Corps Alumni, drawing on their experience in both school and the Math Corps, to gauge the face validity of the scenarios as reliable representations of the site and test their distinguishability as context-specific mathematics interactions. We also share how we will use what we learned from these interviews to further refine the scenarios for use in the larger study.
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Research Disciplines
Social Sciences
