National Surveys of Science and Mathematics Teachers

该项目包括对科学和数学教师的两项全国性调查。在第一次调查中，参加了1985-86年度全国科学和数学教育调查但后来离开教师职业的教师将通过电话访问对教学的态度，以及在教学期间和目前的职业中的工资和工作条件。为了进行比较，还将采访仍在任教的学生中的一小部分。作为这项研究的结果，将更好地了解各种因素在决定离开教师中的相对重要性，并将确定潜在的有效策略，以减少科学和数学教师的流失率。第二项调查将与国家教育进步评估(NAEP)一起进行。NAEP已经计划从包括在1990年全国数学评估中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能够从八年级科学教师那里收集数据，从而能够调查教师和课堂特征与学生在科学方面的表现之间的关系。此外，在适当调整教师权重后，该项目将提供对全国科学和数学教师的课程背景准备等特征的估计。

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.