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

美国国家科学教师协会（NSTA）将牵头开展一项重点关注的项目，开发和评估高中水平的科学课程（SS&amp；C）项目。13所拥有不同人口和资源的高中将参与这个项目，以及适当确定的使用传统课程的控制班。这些学校来自加利福尼亚、爱荷华、蒙大拿、纽约、北卡罗来纳、德克萨斯和华盛顿特区。140名参与的教师将参加在职研讨会，提供科学教育改革的哲学结构，并为他们使用符合科学教育改革方法的教学材料做好准备。该项目的评估是综合考虑教师提高部分和学生的成果。项目将侧重于：(1)自然科学，即生物、化学、地球科学和物理；(2)高中9年级至12年级；(3)规范和纳入所有站点的ss&&c基本原则；(4)协调科学学科的教学，以实现学生对科学的整合；(5)在开始广泛实施SS&amp；C方法之前，回答有关SS&amp；C方法有效性的重要评估问题。所有站点将：遵循SS&amp；C原则，每年提供所有科学科目，明确考虑学生的先前知识；提供从具体经验和描述性表达到抽象象征主义和定量表达的内容序列；在更高的抽象层次上重新审视概念、原则和理论；协调四个科学学科的学习，使基本概念和原理相互联系。该项目将与NRC的国家科学教育标准开发过程密切合作。9-12年级的SS&amp；C框架将进行修订，以满足这些标准的要求，同时符合SS&amp；C的原则。材料将以适当的阅读选集和根据现有资料改编的核心实验室实验的形式准备。项目评估将通过以学生成绩的形式来证明，一个基于自然科学和自然科学原则的项目将实现自然科学和自然科学改革的根本目标：使所有学生都能理解、接近自然科学，并在所有学生的生活中发挥作用。

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.