Dissemination of Instructional Materials in Science for the PreCollege level: A Report to the Profession

在过去的十年中，国家科学基金会(NSF)材料开发、研究和非正式科学教育部(DMDRI)资助了100多个项目，旨在开发材料，以加强全国在数学、科学和技术领域的正式和非正式教与学。虽然每个项目都有一个有限的、特定于项目的评估部分，但到目前为止，几乎没有人努力评估这些项目对全国范围内广泛的教与学的长期影响，无论是单独评估还是作为一个班级。为了找到关于DMDRI/NSF赞助的活动影响的关键问题的答案，雷诺和谢弗律师事务所(R&A；S)建议使用高度互动的跨学科团队方法。R&A；S将首先与发展与发展研究所/国家科学基金会的工作人员合作，选择目前由发展与发展研究所/国家科学基金会资助或在过去十年中已由发展与发展研究所/国家科学基金会资助、并根据个别项目评估的有限目标被判定为成功的15至18个项目。R&A；S将招聘和协调一组在该领域具有重要专业知识、曾在过去项目中成功服务的人员，分析数据，并与R&A；S PI一起为每个项目提交个别报告。PI将分析和综合关于15至18个单独项目的报告，并将其综合成一份连贯的报告，说明DMDRI/NSF的活动对全国范围内数学、科学和技术领域的正式和非正式教与学的影响。本报告将在项目开始之日起不迟于7个月内提交给DMDRI/NSF主任。

During the past decade, the Division of Materials Development, Research, and Informal Science Education (DMDRI) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded more than 100 projects aimed at developing materials to enhance both formal and informal teaching and learning across the nation in the fields of mathematics, science and technology. While each of these projects has had a limited, project-specific evaluation component built into it, heretofore there has been little effort to assess the longer-term impact of the projects either individually or as a class on teaching and learning on a broad scale across the nation. To find the answers to key questions about the impact of DMDRI/NSF-sponsored activities, Reynolds and Schaeffer Associates, Inc. (R&S), proposes to use a highly interactive interdisciplinary team approach. R&S will begin by working with the DMDRI/NSF staff to select between 15 and 18 projects that are presently funded, or have been funded, by DMDRI/NSF within the past decade and have been judged to be successful according to the limited objectives of the individual project evaluations. R&S will recruit and coordinate a team of people with significant expertise in the field who have successfully served in past projects, analyze the data and file individual reports for each project with the R&S PI. The PI will analyze and synthesize the reports on the 15 to 18 individual projects into a single coherent report on the impact of DMDRI/NSF activities on formal and informal teaching and learning in the fields of mathematics, science and technology across the broad national spectrum. This report will be filed with the Director, DMDRI/NSF not later than seven months from the project start date.