Drew Polly

Research, Development and Evaluation Projects

InterMath is a National Science Foundation-funded project for middle grades mathematics teachers. The projet has three primary goals: developing participants' mathematical content knowledge, develolp their skills with mathematical-related technologies (e.g. spreadsheets, Geometer's SketchPad, graphing software). Responsibilities include conducting research related to the program. Other duties include maintaining and developing a website of technology-rich mathematical investigations and other professional development materials, designing and implementing train-the-trainers sessions, and providing technical support for InterMath instructors.
Head Research Scientist: Dr. Chandra Orill (corrill@uga.edu)

Evaluation of Georgia's Dept. of Education Title II-D Initiative "Enhancing Education Through Technology." December 2003-present.

The Title II-D Initiative is a comprehensive professional development program that is providing technology and professional development in order to support teachers' integration of technology in mathematics in Title II schools. My primary duties have involved aligning norm-based, criterion-referenced and performance-based assessments to Georgia's mathematics standards, designing and collecting survey data and running analyses on quantitative data. Additional duties include co-writing evaluation and yearly reports for the Georgia Department of Education.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael J. Hannafin (hannafin@uga.edu)

Teachers' Enactment of Practices Emphasized in a Technology-Related Learner-Centered Professional Development Program. (August 2005-present)

I am serving as the Principal Investigator in a dissertation study that is examining the extent and manner that teachers enact the practices emphasized in a learner-centered professional development program. Research methods include videotaping participants' teaching, conducting interviews and examining student work samples.

Tracing Preservice Teachers' Views of Technology Integration. (January 2004-present)

I am serving as one of the Principal Investigators in a 2 1/2 year study investigating how pre-service teachers' views of technology integration changes throughout their teacher education program. The primary data are semi-structured interviews with participants.
Co-Investigator: Craig Shepherd (craigshepherd@gmail.com)

Past Projects

Website: http://lpsl.coe.uga.edu/mile3/tim/

Technology Integration in Mathematics. University of Georgia (November 2002-May 2004)
I assisted in the design, development and implementation of a professional development program for elementary school teachers that was funded by a Teacher Quality grant. The professional development focused on supporting teachers to employ technology-rich open-ended activities in their mathematics instruction. Primary duties included recruiting partnership schools, writing portions of the grant proposals, delivering professional development and supporting teachers in their classrooms.
Principal Investigators: Dr. Chandra Orrill (corrill@uga.edu)

The Impact of Open-ended Learning Activities on Mathematics Student Achievement
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (January 2002-January 2004)
I analyzed data after it was collected in a mixed-methods study that looked at the effect of open-ended learning environments on student's acquisition of geometry concepts.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert Hannafin (robert.hannafin@uconn.edu)

Evaluation of My Community CD-ROM (August-December, 2004)
I conducted an evaluation and a usability study for My Community, a CD-ROM that has been designed to teach social skills to children with speech and language disorders.
Client: Ben Rockwood, Panza Interactive

Arizona State University's NETS Video Project (September, 2004)
I served as an expert evaluator of instructional DVDs that were produced by Arizona State University's U.S. Department of Education PT3 initiative. The DVDs featured videos of technology-rich lessons
Client: Jennifer Borse, Rockman ET AL