U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research: A Comparative Study of Science Education

这一奖项将使东卡罗来纳大学的Charles Coble教授和Floyd Mattheis教授能够与日本广岛大学的Shigekazu Takemura教授合作，对美国和日本的科学教师教育进行比较研究。这项研究将收集美国和日本小学、初中和高中科学教师的组织结构、人员配备和用于职前和在职教育的课程的数据。日本和美国的研究小组将综合他们的发现，并在1989年5月在夏威夷火奴鲁鲁举行的比较科学教师教育联合会议上公布结果。美国的科学教育工作者可以从美国和日本教师教育的对比研究中学到很多东西，因为日本学生在每个大学前水平的标准化科学成就测试中的得分都一直高于美国学生。在Coble教授和Takemura教授的指导下，团队由两国久负盛名、备受尊敬的科学教育工作者组成。

This award will enable Professors Charles Coble and Floyd Mattheis of East Carolina University to collaborate with Professor Shigekazu Takemura of Hiroshima University, Japan on a comparative study of American and Japanese science teacher education. The study will gather data on the organizational structure, staffing, and the curriculum used for pre-service and in-service education of teachers of science at the elementary, junior high and senior high levels in the U.S. and Japan. The Japanese and U.S. research teams will synthesize their findings and present the results at a joint conference on Comparative Science Teacher Education in May 1989 to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii. Science educators in the United States have much to learn from a comparative study of American and Japanese teacher education since Japanese students consistently outscore U.S. students on standardized science achievement tests at every pre-college level. The teams, under the direction of Professor Coble and Professor Takemura, are composed of well established and highly respected science educators in both countries.