Projects

Ongoing
Ongoing Projects
FEB 2020 – PRESENT

Designing for greater authenticity in Geographical Investigations (GI) through local microclimate studies with the Internet of Things (IoT) and open-source environmental sensors

Team Members

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Dr Kenneth Y T Lim NIE

CO PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS

Dr Tricia Seow NIE
Jiunn Huat Soo MOE
Josef Tan MOE

Funding Agency

NIE Education Research Funding Programme

Project Description

In 2019, a team from the NIE collaborated with officers from the Ministry of Education (MOE) (one from the Curriculum Planning and Development Division, and another from the Educational Technology Division) to enact a small-scale study through the Ministry’s Senior Specialist Track Research Fund in four secondary schools. The study was conducted with Sec Two and Three cohorts during regular curriculum hours, across two academic streams. With the on-going piloting of full subject-based banding and the revised geography curriculum to be adopted nationwide in 2022, this project seeks to build on the success of the initial pilot to enact interventions aligned with Geographical Investigations (GI) which teachers have already been conducting with students. These interventions seek to scale and translate the curriculum approach piloted in 2019, in to schools in which students are entering with relatively lower geographical literacies.