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

摘要ESI-9354085高中科学的范围、顺序和协调性的国家课程开发和评估项目全国科学教师协会将领导一个精心集中的项目来开发和评估高中水平的(SS&A；C)计划。拥有不同人口和资源的13所高中将参与这一项目，以及适当确定的利用传统课程的控制班。这些学校来自加利福尼亚州、爱荷华州、蒙大拿州、纽约、北卡罗来纳州、德克萨斯州和华盛顿特区。参加的140名教师将参加在职工作坊，这些工作坊提供科学与科学教育改革的哲学构想，并为他们使用与科学与科学相一致的教材做好准备。对该项目的评估是全面的，既考虑了教师能力的提高，也考虑了学生的成果。该项目将集中于：(1)自然科学，即生物、化学、地球科学和物理；(2)从9年级到12年级的高中阶段；(3)在所有地点详细说明和纳入SS&Amp；C的基本原则；(4)协调科学科目的教学，以实现学生对科学的整合；(5)在开始广泛实施之前，回答关于SS&Amp；C方法的有效性的重要评估问题。所有网站将：遵循SS&A；C每年开设每门理科的原则，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量化表达的一系列内容；在依次更高的抽象水平上重温概念、原则和理论；协调四门理科的学习，以使基本概念和原则相互关联。该项目将与NRC的国家科学教育标准制定过程密切合作。将修订9-12年级的SS&amp；C框架，以满足这些标准的要求，同时符合SS&amp；C的原则，材料将以适当读物选集和根据现有来源改编的核心实验室实验的形式编制。项目评估将通过学生成绩的形式证明，基于SS&C原则的项目将实现SS&C改革的基本目标：使所有学生都能理解、接触到自然科学，并在生活中发挥作用。

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.