National Surveys of Science and Mathematics Teachers

本项目包括两次全国科学和数学教师调查。在第一项调查中，参加过1985-86年全国科学和数学教育调查但后来离开教师职业的教师将接受电话采访，询问他们对教学的态度、教学期间的工资和工作条件以及他们目前的职业。为了比较起见，还将采访仍在教学的人的子样本。作为这项研究的结果，我们将更好地理解决定离开教学的各种因素的相对重要性。并确定降低科学和数学教师流失率的潜在有效策略。第二次调查将与国家教育进展评估（NAEP）一起进行。NAEP已经计划从1990年全国数学评估中包括的每个八年级学生的数学老师那里收集数据。该项目将使NAEP能够收集八年级科学教师的数据，从而调查教师和课堂特征与学生科学表现之间的关系。此外，在适当调整教师权重后，本项目将对全国科学和数学教师的课程背景准备和其他特征进行评估。

This project includes two national surveys of science and mathematics teachers. In the first survey, teachers who participated in the 1985-86 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education but have since left the teaching profession will be interviewed by telephone about attitudes toward teaching, and salary and working conditions while teaching and in their current occupation. For comparison purposes, a subsample of those who are still teaching will also be interviewed. As a result of this research, a better understanding of the relative importance of various factors in decisions to leave teaching will be gained, and potentially effective strategies for decreasing the attrition rates of science and mathematics teachers will be identified. The second survey will be conducted in conjunction with the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). NAEP already plans to collect data from the mathematics teachers of each eighth grade student included in the 1990 mathematics national assessment. This project will enable NAEP to collect data from eighth grade science teachers as well, allowing investigation of the relationship between teacher and classroom characteristics and student performance in science. In addition, after adjusting the teacher weights appropriately, this project will provide estimates of the course background preparation and other characteristics of science and mathematics teachers in the nation as a whole.