CAREER: Multilevel Mediation Models to Study the Impact of Teacher Development on Student Achievement in Mathematics

职业：多层次中介模型研究教师发展对学生数学成绩的影响

• 批准号: 1552535
• 负责人: Benjamin Kelcey
• 金额: $ 67.91万
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1552535&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Multilevel; Mediation; Models; Study

This is a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) project. The CAREER program is a National Science Foundation-wide activity that offers the most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research. The intellectual merit and broader impacts of this study lie in two complementary contributions of the project. First, the development of the statistical framework for the design of multilevel mediation studies has significant potential for broad impact because it develops a core platform that is transferable to other STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education areas and STEM disciplines. Second, the development of software and curricular materials to implement this framework further capitalize on the promise of this work because it distributes the results in an accessible manner to diverse sets of research and practitioner groups across STEM education areas and STEM disciplines. Together, the components of this project will substantially expand the scope and quality of evidence generated through mathematics professional development and, more generally, multilevel mediation studies throughout STEM areas by increasing researchers' capacity to design valid and comprehensive studies of the theories of action and change that underlie research programs.This project will develop a comprehensive framework to inform and guide the analytic design of teacher professional development studies in mathematics. The proposed framework incorporates four integrated research and education components: (1) develop statistical formulas and tools to guide the optimal design of experimental and non-experimental multilevel mediation studies in the presence of measurement error, (2) develop empirical estimates of the parameters needed to implement these formulas to design teacher development studies in mathematics, (3) develop free and accessible software to execute this framework, and (4) develop training materials and conduct workshops on the framework to improve the capacity of the field to design effective and efficient studies of teacher development. An essential goal of the research is to advance a science of teaching and learning in ways that traverse both research and education.

这是一项教师早期职业发展计划（职业）项目。该职业计划是一项全国科学基金会范围的活动，为支持初级教师提供了最负盛名的奖项，他们通过杰出的研究，出色的教育以及教育和研究的融合来体现教师 - scholars的作用。这项研究的智力优点和更广泛的影响在于该项目的两个互补贡献。首先，开发多层次调解研究设计的统计框架具有广泛影响的重要潜力，因为它开发了一个可转移到其他STEM（科学，技术，工程和数学）教育领域和茎学科的核心平台。其次，实施此框架的软件和课程材料的开发进一步利用了这项工作的承诺，因为它以易于访问的方式将结果分配给STEM教育领域和STEM学科的各种研究和从业人员组。总之，该项目的组成部分将通过数学专业发展产生的证据的范围和质量，更普遍地，更普遍地，通过提高研究人员设计有效和全面研究的行动理论和变化理论的能力，从而在整个STEM领域中产生的证据质量和质量。该项目将开发一个全面的框架，以告知和指导数学专业发展研究的分析设计。提出的框架结合了四个综合研究和教育组成部分：（1）开发统计公式和工具，以指导在存在测量误差的情况下实验和非实验性多层中介研究的最佳设计，（2）开发所需参数的经验估计值要实施这些公式来设计数学的教师发展研究，（3）开发自由且可访问的软件以执行此框架，（4）开发培训材料并在框架上进行讲习班，以提高该领域的能力，以设计有效而高效教师发展的研究。该研究的一个基本目的是以遍历研究和教育的方式发展教学科学。