{"id":18642,"date":"2012-05-04T13:23:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=18642"},"modified":"2012-05-04T13:48:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:48:15","slug":"grant-to-improve-problem-solving-skills-for-dhh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/05\/04\/grant-to-improve-problem-solving-skills-for-dhh\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant to Improve Problem-Solving Skills for D\/HH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Grant to Improve Problem-Solving Skills for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Students<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MAY 1, 2012<\/p>\n<p>By Michelle Cometa, RIT University News Services<\/p>\n<p>Story Highlights:<\/p>\n<p>* Students will participate in hands-on activities in the Toyota<br \/>\nProduction Systems Laboratory at RIT.<br \/>\n* The modules will be part of foundation-level engineering courses<br \/>\nrequired for students pursuing engineering and technical degrees at<br \/>\nNTID.<br \/>\n* The study will continue for three years with assessment by the Center<br \/>\nfor Education Research Partnerships at NTID.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found that differences in the way deaf and<br \/>\nhard-of-hearing students learn are multifaceted: from the development<br \/>\nand mastery of early language skills in both American Sign Language and<br \/>\nspoken languages, to the organization of knowledge and individual<br \/>\nlearning strategies.<\/p>\n<p>Further understanding of these unique differences and providing<br \/>\nsolutions to improve learning outcomes, particularly in science,<br \/>\ntechnology, engineering and mathematics, the STEM fields, is the focus<br \/>\nof new research at Rochester Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>The university has received a $198,172 grant from the National Science<br \/>\nFoundation for \u201cIntegration of Experiential Learning to Develop Problem<br \/>\nSolving Skills in Deaf and Hard of Hearing STEM Students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A multidisciplinary research team will develop a series of classroom<br \/>\nand laboratory modules that rely on experiential learning and<br \/>\nstructured, visual problem-solving approaches. This will immerse<br \/>\nstudents into a context-rich, industry-like environment with hands-on<br \/>\nactivities in the Toyota Production Systems Laboratory, located in<br \/>\nRIT\u2019s Kate Gleason College of Engineering, says Andres Carrano,<br \/>\nassociate professor of industrial and systems engineering and principal<br \/>\ninvestigator of the grant. He is joined on the research team by Wendy<br \/>\nDannels, lecturer in engineering studies at RIT\u2019s National Technical<br \/>\nInstitute for the Deaf, and Matt Marshall, associate professor of<br \/>\nindustrial and systems engineering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe project represents a critical step in translating knowledge of<br \/>\ndeaf education into effective pedagogy,\u201d Carrano says. \u201cUsing<br \/>\nexperiential learning and a structured, graphical problem-solving<br \/>\nmethodology, the modules address the barriers that deaf and<br \/>\nhard-of-hearing students face in developing problem-solving skills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The modules will be part of foundation-level engineering courses<br \/>\nrequired for students pursuing engineering and technology degree<br \/>\nprograms at NTID. Despite an understanding of how deaf and<br \/>\nhard-of-hearing students differ from hearing students in the<br \/>\ndevelopment and application of problem-solving skills, progress lags in<br \/>\nthe development of effective pedagogy for educating deaf and<br \/>\nhard-of-hearing students in the STEM fields, Carrano says.<\/p>\n<p>Critical to the development of problem-solving is the fact that deaf<br \/>\nand hard-of-hearing students typically bring less content knowledge to<br \/>\nthe classroom and often fail to comprehend how variables in a complex<br \/>\nsystem are interrelated.<\/p>\n<p>The team will develop the modules this summer, implement the material<br \/>\nover a three-year period and assess learning outcomes by the Center for<br \/>\nEducation Research Partnerships, a center specializing in deaf and<br \/>\nhear-of-hearing education based at NTID. Particular emphasis is placed<br \/>\non the concepts of teamwork, problem solving and process improvement by<br \/>\nstudying the fundamental behavior of production lines.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntid.rit.edu\/news\/grant-improve-problem-solving-skills-deaf-and-hard-hearing-students\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ntid.rit.edu\/news\/grant-improve-problem-solving-skills-deaf-and-hard-hearing-students<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant to Improve Problem-Solving Skills for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students MAY 1, 2012 By Michelle Cometa, RIT University News Services Story Highlights: * Students will participate in hands-on activities in the Toyota Production Systems Laboratory at RIT. * The modules&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/05\/04\/grant-to-improve-problem-solving-skills-for-dhh\/\">Read more 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