naa a22 4500 510781055 CHVBK 20180411083247.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11422-013-9521-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11422-013-9521-8 Collaborative online projects for English language learners in science [Elektronische Daten] [Fatima Terrazas-Arellanes, Carolyn Knox, Carmen Rivas] This paper summarizes how collaborative online projects (COPs) are used to facilitate science content-area learning for English Learners of Hispanic origin. This is a Mexico-USA partnership project funded by the National Science Foundation. A COP is a 10-week thematic science unit, completely online, and bilingual (Spanish and English) designed to provide collaborative learning experiences with culturally and linguistically relevant science instruction in an interactive and multimodal learning environment. Units are integrated with explicit instructional lessons that include: (a) hands-on and laboratory activities, (b) interactive materials and interactive games with immediate feedback, (c) animated video tutorials, (d) discussion forums where students exchange scientific learning across classrooms in the USA and in Mexico, and (e) summative and formative assessments. Thematic units have been aligned to U.S. National Science Education Standards and are under current revisions for alignment to the Common Core State Standards. Training materials for the teachers have been integrated into the project website to facilitate self-paced and independent learning. Preliminary findings of our pre-experimental study with a sample of 53 students (81% ELs), distributed across three different groups, resulted in a 21% statistically significant points increase from pretest to posttest assessments of science content learning, t(52)=11.07, p=.000. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 English learners nationallicence Bilingual education nationallicence Science learning nationallicence Collaborative learning nationallicence Technology nationallicence Terrazas-Arellanes Fatima Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon, 1244 Walnut, Suite 220, 97408, Eugene, OR, USA aut Knox Carolyn Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon, 1244 Walnut, Suite 220, 97408, Eugene, OR, USA aut Rivas Carmen Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon, 1244 Walnut, Suite 220, 97408, Eugene, OR, USA aut Cultural Studies of Science Education Springer Netherlands 8/4(2013-12-01), 953-971 1871-1502 8:4<953 2013 8 11422 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-013-9521-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-013-9521-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Terrazas-Arellanes Fatima Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon, 1244 Walnut, Suite 220, 97408, Eugene, OR, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Knox Carolyn Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon, 1244 Walnut, Suite 220, 97408, Eugene, OR, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rivas Carmen Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon, 1244 Walnut, Suite 220, 97408, Eugene, OR, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cultural Studies of Science Education Springer Netherlands 8/4(2013-12-01), 953-971 1871-1502 8:4<953 2013 8 11422 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer