Minzhi Fall 2021 - Spring 2022 Surrey School Projects (participated in all four projects, mainly contributed to French Immersion Program project and Systematic Literature Review):

Department website: https://www.surreyschools.ca/page/329/research-evaluation

1.Evaluation of the Check and Connect Program in Surrey Schools

The Check and Connect Program seeks to foster student engagement at school and with learning with the students who show warning signs of disengagement with school and who are at risk of dropping out

Program Page: https://surreyschools.ca/page/1127/check-and-connect

• Responsible for creating a dataset of 76 students in the evaluation of the Check and Connect Program in Surrey Schools

• Collaborated with others in the department to identify data errors in the original dataset and carry out methods to analyze the data. The analysis helped the department to develop a report and recommendations to improve the program

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2.Survey of the French Immersion Program – Surrey School District

French Immersion is an intensive second language acquisition program. Students study in French while following the regular B.C. Curriculum Prescribed Learning Outcomes

Program Page: https://www.surreyschools.ca/page/1158/french-immersion

• Provided robust analyses of open-ended data and survey questions where the data and questions contained the responses from more than 600 students and their parents

• Built the analyses result into reports and a set of infographics

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3.Systematic Literature Review: The Evolving Nature of Literacy and Assessment

The systematic literature review project is foundational to the development of workshops and professional development activities delivered across surrey schools

• Collaborated with district education consultants to identify relevant peer-reviewed articles and books concerning multiple and critical literacies across school subject areas (e.g., mathematics and statistics, English Language Arts, science, social studies, and civic engagement)

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4.Social and Emotional Learning Lead Initiative Report

The SEL Lead Initiative seeks to improve the SEL competencies and wellbeing of thousands of students and hundreds of their teachers in Surrey Schools

Program Page: https://www.surreyschools.ca/page/127567/social-emotional-learning

• Provided qualitative and quantitative analyses of teacher and student data from Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Lead Initiative

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Acknowledgment: Sincerely thank my supervisor, Matthew Waugh for having me in these fantastic programs. Thanks to my co-worker Megan Giroux, Anna-Maria Karout, and Shuhan Yang. All above projects are in collaboration with my co-worker