SuperQuest Evaluation

超级任务评测

• 批准号: 9355836
• 负责人: Malvin Kalos
• 金额: $ 11.45万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-06-01 至 1996-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9355836&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SuperQuest; Evaluation

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?

小行星9355836 在中学阶段，科学进步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NSF资助的一个项目，旨在为高中学生和他们的老师带来计算工具和技术，最终目标是将计算科学纳入高中课程。 到目前为止，SuperQuest已经涉及到一个全国性的比赛，其中学生和他们的教师教练团队提出计算科学或数学问题进行调查。 获胜的队伍由一个国家审查委员会选出。 获奖者将在四个超级探索中心之一参加为期三周的暑期研究所，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。 获奖者所在的高中将获得工作站和与互联网的通信链接。 这些团队的早期成功和热情激发了人们对将SuperQuest推向下一阶段的兴趣-为全国教育工作者提供广泛的指导和指导，指导他们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NSF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，并随着该计划的发展建立长期的方向和目标，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订合同，与SuperQuest项目主任合作进行这项评估。 具体而言，评价将回答以下问题： 实施SuperQuest的模型范围是什么 在参加了《2000年世界教育日》的学校开展的活动 节目？ 参与S & M Quest对 不同的学校对学生、教师和 课程与学习环境？ 关于先进的计算技术 最有效和最高效地提供资源， 在学校里得到支持和使用？ 专业发展经验有哪些 教师如何利用计算机资源？ 对更广泛的社区进行了哪些外联？ 在没有获奖的学校中， 申请过程的后果？ 申请的学校有哪些信息来源 SuperQuest程序使用？