Understanding the correlation between knowledge and opinion is the focus of a nuclear technology curriculum unit field test carried out in the Lancaster Middle School. A 64-student eighth grade study group was surveyed both before and after an intensive, five-week course in nuclear technology to determine if changes in opinion can be linked to the increase of topical knowledge. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) was used to see if the unit was equally received by students with a broad spectrum of learning styles. Post-unit "retention" testing was employed to determine the project's effectiveness when compared to science class performance evaluations (grades) earned prior to the start of the nuclear unit.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Kaplo, Patrick Jacques

Subject

• Community
• Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 00D103I

Keyword

• Curriculum planning
• Education, Secondary
• Personality and intelligence
• Engineering--Study and teaching

Advisor

• Wilkes, John M.

Year

• 2000

Date created

• 2000-01-01

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright