A National Teacher Enhancement/Implementation and Evaluation Project for Grades 9-10 Scope, Sequence, and Coordination in Science

摘要 ESI-9354085 高中科学范围、顺序和协调的国家课程开发和评估项目 国家科学教师协会 (NSTA) 将领导一个精心制定和评估高中水平 (SS&C) 计划的项目。拥有不同人口和资源的 13 所高中将参与该项目，以及适当确定的利用传统课程的控制班级。这些学校来自加利福尼亚州、爱荷华州、蒙大拿州、纽约州、北卡罗来纳州、德克萨斯州和华盛顿特区。 140 名参与教师将参加在职研讨会，这些研讨会提供 SS&C 科学教育改革的哲学结构，并帮助他们准备使用与 SS&C 方法一致的教学材料。该项目的评估是综合考虑教师提升部分和学生成果的。 该项目将重点关注：（1）自然科学，即生物学、化学、地球科学和物理学； (2) 高中9年级至12年级； (3) 所有地点的 SS&C 基本原则的规范和纳入； (4) 科学科目教学的协调，旨在实现学生对科学的整合； (5) 在开始广泛实施之前，回答有关 SS&C 方法有效性的重要评估问题。 所有站点将： 遵循每年提供每门科学科目的 SS&C 原则，明确考虑学生的先验知识；提供从具体经验和描述性表达到抽象象征和定量表达的一系列内容；在相继更高的抽象层次上重新审视概念、原则和理论；协调四个科学科目的学习，以便将基本概念和原理相互联系起来。 该项目将与 NRC 的国家科学教育标准制定流程密切合作。 9-12 年级的 SS&C 框架将进行修订，以满足这些标准的要求，同时符合 SS&C 原则的材料将以适当阅读材料和改编自现有来源的核心实验室实验选集的形式准备。项目评估将通过以学生成绩为形式的证据，确定基于 SS&C 原则的计划将实现 SS&C 改革的基本目标：让所有学生都能理解、接触到自然科学并在生活中受益。

ABSTRACT ESI-9354085 A National Curriculum Development and Evaluation Project for High School Scope, Sequence, and Coordination in Science The National Science Teachers Association(NSTA) will lead a carefully focused project in developing and evaluating an (SS&C) program at the high school level. Thirteen high schools having diverse populations and resources will participate in this project, along with suitably identified control classes that utilize traditional curricula. These schools are from California, Iowa, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Texas and Washington, DC. The 140 participating teachers will attend inservice workshops which provide the philosophical constructs of the SS&C science education reform and prepare them to use instructional materials which are congruent with the SS&C approach. The evaluation of the project is comprehensive considering both the teacher enhancement component and student outcomes. The project will focus on: (1) the natural science, i.e. biology, chemistry, earth sciences, and physics; (2) the high school level from grade 9 through grade 12; (3) the specification and incorporation of the basic tenets of SS&C at all sites; (4) coordination of teaching the science subjects, designed so as to achieve integration of the sciences by students; (5) answering important evaluation questions, regarding the efficacy of the SS&C approach, before embarking on widespread implementation. All sites will: follow the SS&C principles of providing every science subject every year, explicitly taking into account student's prior knowledge; provide a sequence of content from concrete experiences and descriptive expression to abstract symbolism and quantitative expression; revisit concepts, principles, and theories at successively higher levels of abstraction; coordinate learning in the four science subjects so as to interrelate basic concepts and principles. The project will work closely wit h the National Science Education Standards Development process at the NRC. The SS&C Framework for grades 9-12 will be revised to meet the requirements of those standards, while conforming to the tenets of SS&C Materials will be prepared in the form of Anthologies of appropriate readings and core laboratory experiments adapted from extant sources. Project evaluation will establish, through evidence in the form of student achievement, that a program based on SS&C tenets will achieve the fundamental goal of the SS&C reform: to make the natural science understandable by, accessible to, and useful in, the lives of all students.