SuperQuest Evaluation

9355836卡洛斯提高中学科学水平的一个关键障碍是，公立和私立教育无法跟上涉及计算机的科学进步。SuperQuest是美国国家科学基金会资助的一个项目，旨在将计算工具和技术带给高中生和他们的老师，最终目标是将计算科学纳入高中课程。到目前为止，SuperQuest还参与了一场全国性的比赛，在比赛中，学生团队和他们的老师提出要调查的计算科学或数学问题。获胜的队伍由国家评审委员会选出。获奖者在四个SuperQuest中心中的一个参加为期三周的暑期学院，在那里他们学习如何使用高性能计算和可视化来解决他们的科学问题。获奖者的高中会收到工作站和与互联网的通讯链接。这些团队的早期成功和热情激发了人们将SuperQuest推向下一阶段的兴趣--为全国的教育工作者提供广泛的指导和指导，如何将计算工具和技术整合到中学科学和数学课程中。康奈尔理论中心寻求美国国家科学基金会的支持，对SuperQuest计划进行详细、系统的外部评估，以评估和了解该计划对高中的影响，并随着计划的发展建立长期方向和目标，以促进中学计算科学教育。康奈尔理论中心将与教育技术中心签约，与SuperQuest项目主任合作进行这项评估。具体来说，评估将回答以下问题：在参与该计划的学校实施SuperQuest活动的模式范围是什么？S在不同学校内部参与uperQuest对学生、教师、课程和学习环境都产生了哪些影响？关于如何在学校中最有效、最高效地提供、支持和使用先进的计算资源，我们一般可以了解到什么？教师需要什么样的专业发展经验才能很好地利用计算资源？向更广泛的社区开展了哪些类型的外联活动？在没有获奖的学校中，申请过程有什么持久的影响吗？申请SuperQuest项目的学校使用哪些信息来源？

9355836 Kalos A key hurdle in the advancement of science at the secondary level is the inability of public and private education to keep up with scientific advances that involve computers. SuperQuest, an NSF funded program, was designed to bring computational tools and techniques to high school students and their teachers, with an ultimate goal of incorporating computational science into the high school curriculum. To date, SuperQuest has involved a national competition, wherein teams of students and their teacher-coaches propose computational science or mathematics problems to investigate. The winning teams are selected by a national review committee. Winners attend three-week summer institutes at one of four SuperQuest Centers, where they learn how to use high- performance computing and visualization to solve their scientific problems. The winners' high schools receive workstations and communications links to the internet. The early success and enthusiasm of these teams has sparked interest in moving SuperQuest toward the next phase in its evolution - to provide broad-based instruction and guidance to educators nationwide in how to integrate computational tools and techniques into secondary science and mathematics curricula. The Cornell Theory Center seeks support from the NSF to conduct a detailed, systematic external evaluation of the SuperQuest program to assess and understand the impact of the program on the high schools and to establish long-term directions and goals as the program evolves to foster secondary school computational science education. The Cornell Theory Center will contract with the Center for Technology in Education to conduct this evaluation in cooperation with the SuperQuest project director. Specifically, the evaluation will answer the following questions: What is the range of models for implementing SuperQuest activities in the schools that have participated in the program? What has been the impact of S uperQuest participation within the different schools on the students, the teachers, and the curriculum and learning environment? What can be learned in general about how advanced computing resources are most effectively and efficiently made available, supported, and used in schools? What kinds of professional development experiences are required for teachers to use computational resources well? What kinds of outreach took place to the broader community? Among the non-winning schools, were there any lasting consequences of the application process? What kinds of information sources do schools who apply to the SuperQuest program use?