Promoting Excellence in Arizona Middle School Mathematics: Increasing Student Achievement through Systemic Instructional Change

促进亚利桑那州中学数学的卓越表现：通过系统的教学变革提高学生的成绩

• 批准号: 1103080
• 负责人: April Strom
• 金额: $ 874.83万
• 依托单位: Maricopa County Community College District
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-03-15 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1103080&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Promoting; Excellence; Arizona; Middle; Mathematics

The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) project Promoting Excellence in Arizona Middle School Mathematics: Increasing Student Achievement through Systemic Instructional Change involves 10 Core Partners: Scottsdale Community College (as the lead), Chandler-Gilbert Community College and Glendale Community College, and the Deer Valley, Scottsdale, Fountain Hills, Chandler, Florence, J.O. Combs school districts, as well as Salt River Pima-Maricopa Community Schools. Supporting partners are: Arizona State University, Maricopa County Community College District, and the Glendale, Mesa, and Peoria school districts. This MSP Targeted project supports teachers in advancing their knowledge about the teaching and learning of middle school mathematics, as well as developmental mathematics in community colleges. The Promoting Excellence in Arizona Middle School Mathematics (PEAMSM) project provides a systemic model of sustainable professional development in partner schools and colleges to achieve the goal of increasing student achievement in middle school mathematics courses, thus enabling these students to make a successful transition to more challenging courses and curricula in high school. Project activities are in four areas: Teacher Knowledge Development; School-Based Collaborations; Capacity-Building; and Research. The project also produces research about the characteristics and mechanisms of a sustainable professional development program, as well as contributes to the body of knowledge for understanding teachers' and students' mathematical thinking and beliefs. PEAMSM targets 300 in-service middle school mathematics teachers, 32 middle school mathematics teacher-leaders, 40 middle school administrators and 140 pre-service middle school teachers in the Phoenix, AZ metropolitan area and impacts a total of 24,000 students in grades 5-8. PEAMSM possesses a substantial research portfolio. The primary research question is "In what ways does the teacher professional development experience promote sense-making, computational fluency, problem solving and conceptual understanding of mathematical ideas among middle school mathematics teachers?" There are several other research questions that involve investigating different aspects of the professional development and its effects on teachers and the students they teach. Project findings will be prepared for publication in peer-reviewed journals of mathematics education and for presentation at state and national conferences. The project provides a national model for professional development and teacher education conducted by community college faculty trained in mathematics education research.

The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) project Promoting Excellence in Arizona Middle School Mathematics: Increasing Student Achievement through Systemic Instructional Change involves 10 Core Partners: Scottsdale Community College (as the lead), Chandler-Gilbert Community College and Glendale Community College, and the Deer Valley, Scottsdale, Fountain Hills, Chandler, Florence, J.O.梳子学区以及盐河Pima-Maricopa社区学校。支持合作伙伴是：亚利桑那州立大学，马里科帕县社区学院区以及格伦代尔，梅萨和皮奥里亚学区。该MSP的针对性项目支持教师促进他们对中学数学的教学和学习以及社区大学中的发展数学知识。亚利桑那中学数学（PEAMSM）项目的促进卓越，为合作伙伴学校和学院的可持续专业发展提供了系统的模型，以实现在中学数学课程中提高学生成就的目标，从而使这些学生能够成功过渡到高中的更具挑战性的课程和课程。项目活动在四个领域：教师知识发展；基于学校的合作；能力建设；和研究。该项目还进行了有关可持续专业发展计划的特征和机制的研究，并为了解教师和学生的数学思维和信念的知识而做出了贡献。 PEAMSM针对300名在凤凰城，亚利桑那州大都会地区的中学数学教师，32名中学数学教师，32名中学数学教师领导者，40名中学管理人员和140名服务前中学教师，并影响5 - 8年级的24,000名学生。 PEAMSM拥有大量的研究组合。主要的研究问题是“教师专业发展经验在哪些方面促进了感知，计算流畅性，解决问题和对中学数学教师中数学思想的概念理解？”还有其他一些研究问题涉及研究专业发展的不同方面及其对教师及其教学学生的影响。项目发现将准备在同行评审的数学教育期刊以及在州和国家会议上的演讲中发表。该项目为社区学院教师进行了数学教育研究培训的社区学院教师提供的专业发展和教师教育模式。