TLT COLLABORATIVE PROPOSAL
DR. R. W. (BOB) Reising
P O Box 1510, UNCP
Pembroke NC 28372
910-521-6485
Title: Preparing Twenty (20) Socio-economically Disadvantaged Robeson County High School Students Considering UNC System Institutions for Success on the SAT via
Computer Resources Treating Sports
Site: Computer Laboratory, Dial Humanities Center, UNCP
Dates: Ten (10) Saturday Mornings in April, May, and Early June of 2000: Thirty (30) Hours
Objectives:
The course will:
1) feature innovative, valid, and revealing pre- and post-testing instruments, to include SAT instruments, as well as both self-efficacy and motivation instruments.
2) develop "Video-Streaming" and E-Mail Collaboration Centers for future use;
3) provide 15 hours of SAT Verbal Section instruction and 15 of Mathematics
Section instruction, all 30 hours to involve the Internet and other software
resources related to the SAT and athletics;
4) will video-tape the 30 hours, intending to provide opportunities in the future for other students, especially those from socio-economically disadvantaged circumstances, who,
likewise, wish to consider UNC System institutions for their baccalaureate education;
5) employ on-line resources to develop "Just in Time" Learning Modules for SAT
preparation focusing entirely on sports.
Method of Student Selection: the writer of this proposal (an SAT Consultant whose doctoral
dissertation treated sports literature) will consult the Athletics Director and coaches
in Robeson County high schools to select the 20 students, 10 males and 10 females,
all of whom will:
1) possess academic promise;
2) be socio-economically disadvantaged;
3) be considering UNC System institutions.
Budget: Please note that no student involved will be paid:
Video-taping and Editing: $2,500
Developing a Web resource, with data base: $5,000
Project Director and Verbal Section Instructor: 10 Saturdays: $3,000
Math Section Instructor: 5 Saturdays: $1,500
Lunches for Students: 10 Saturdays: $1,000
*Computer Lab Assistant: 10 Saturdays: $ l, 000
Lap-Top Computer (Project Preparation): $2,500
Software: $ l, 000
Mileage for Students: 10 Saturdays: $2,000
Xeroxing: $ 500
Other Materials (e.g., cartridges): $ 500
Motivational Speaker (e.g., Dean Smith): $ 600
Total: $21,100
Additional Information:
1) Project Director (see above)
2) Mr. Campbell Price
Instructional Technology Consultant
Educational Technologies Division
NC Department of Public Instruction
Raleigh NC 27601
Phone: 919-715-4682
3) Mr. Todd Russ
Director of Technology
Public Schools of Robeson County
P O Drawer 2909
Lumberton NC 28358
Phone: 910-671-6038
*must possess Internet and other technology expertise demanded in the Dial Computer Laboratory