Strengthening the Research Base that Informs STEM Workforce and Curriculum Improvement Efforts

加强为 STEM 劳动力和课程改进工作提供信息的研究基础

• 批准号: 1348669
• 负责人: Heather Hill
• 金额: $ 32.7万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-11-01 至 2018-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1348669&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Strengthening; Research; Base; Informs; STEM

This project is funded by NSF's Research on Education and Learning (REAL) program. REAL supports the accumulation of robust evidence to inform efforts to understand, build theory to explain, and suggest innovations and interventions to address persistent challenges in STEM interest, education, learning, and participation. This project addresses a grand challenge facing contemporary STEM education by identifying characteristics of effective teacher professional development and curricular improvement efforts. The research will produce the most comprehensive and rigorous synthesis to date of the causal research evidence on this topic. This project will accumulate evidence on the impacts of interventions intended to improve instructional quality on preK-12th grade students' social-emotional, behavioral, affective, and learning outcomes in mathematics and science. The project has been designed to produce a comprehensive synthesis of research exploring the (immediate, intermediate, and long-term) impacts of professional development (and other) interventions intended to enhance teacher learning, and initiatives to enhance teachers' use of novel curricular materials in the classroom. Specifically, the researchers will build a comprehensive database of studies will be constructed through searches of reference databases, review articles, results of funded research projects, web-based resources, abstracts of major STEM and general education conferences, and direct contact with researchers, including principal investigators of NSF and U.S. Department of Education supported studies. The database will include information on the key moderators that likely impact the efficacy of the programs studied such as: duration, intensity, format, grade, and disciplinary topic. The investigators will then utilize meta-analytic techniques to synthesize findings from methodologically rigorous studies of STEM interventions with the explicit intent of improving mathematics and science teaching (e.g., interventions involving professional development, curricular materials, or both).

该项目由NSF关于教育与学习的研究（真实）计划资助。 真正的证据积累了积累，以告知努力，以理解，建立理论来解释并提出创新和干预措施，以应对STEM兴趣，教育，学习和参与方面的持续挑战。 该项目通过确定有效的教师专业发展和课程改进工作的特征来应对当代STEM教育面临的巨大挑战。这项研究将在有关该主题的因果研究证据迄今为止产生最全面，最严格的综合。该项目将积累有关旨在提高教学质量的干预措施的影响的证据。 该项目旨在制定研究的全面综合，以探讨专业发展（和其他）干预措施的（直接，中间和长期）影响，旨在增强教师学习，并旨在增强教师在课堂上使用新型课程材料的倡议。 具体而言，研究人员将通过搜索参考数据库，评论文章，资助研究项目的结果，基于Web的资源，主要STEM和普通教育会议的摘要以及与研究人员的直接接触，包括NSF的主要研究人员和美国教育部支持的研究，将建立一个全面的研究数据库。数据库将包括有关关键主持人的信息，这些信息可能会影响所研究程序的功效，例如：持续时间，强度，格式，等级和纪律主题。然后，研究人员将利用荟萃分析技术从方法论严格的茎干预措施中综合发现，并具有改善数学和科学教学的明确目的（例如，涉及专业发展，课程材料或两者兼而有之的干预措施）。