CSAMS, Coordinated Science Assessment Model Study

9450208米勒 需要建立高质量的评估和评价机制，以持续监测高中科学教育改革的成果，供内部和外部使用。 教师、学校管理人员、大学和学院教职员工、家长和学生需要接受这些评估，将其作为衡量科学学习和成就的质量和数量的有效措施。 三个黄金州考试在科学（生物，化学和协调科学）已制定和实施的大规模在加州高中。 本研究的目的是使用这些考试，参加考试的学生，和教师教这些学生作为基础，开始建立参数和方法，可以最有效地用于未来的大规模努力，以监测中学科学改革。 该研究将重点（但不限于）与国家范围，顺序和协调（SS C）项目改革的学校。 金州考试的发展和实施一直是学校科学教师和大学科学教师的共同努力。 这种团队合作一直是一个宝贵的专业发展机会，数百名科学教师，参与考试的各个方面，如发展委员会，评分小组，组合法官，并作为研讨会的领导者。 本研究将为这一评价设计和核心群体的数据分析增加一个研究组成部分。 大多数参与者将来自学校，这些学校积极参与实施高质量的协调或综合科学，这是加州的SS C项目的平台。 这些教师将设计调查，以监测学生的学习态度和途径，以及渐进的主题测试，将评分论文，绩效任务和投资组合，并将分析结果，为未来的评估和评估实施工作提出建议。

9450208 Miller High quality assessment and evaluation mechanisms to monitor the outcomes of science education reform at the high school level on a continual basis are needed for both internal and external use. Teachers, school administrators, university and college faculty, parents and students need to accept these assessments as valid measures of both quality and quantity of science learning and achievement. Three Golden State Examinations in Science (Biology, Chemistry, and Coordinated Science) have been developed and implemented on a broad scale on California high schools. This study aims to use these examinations, the students taking them, and the teachers teaching those students as basis to begin to establish the parameters and methodologies that can be most efficiently used in future large scale efforts to monitor secondary school science reforms. The study will focus (though not exclusively) on the schools working with the state Scope, and Sequence and Coordination (SS&C) project reforms. The Golden State Examination development and implementation has been a collaborative effort of school science teachers and college science faculty. This teamwork has been a valuable professional development opportunity for several hundred science teachers, involved in various facets of the examination, such as development committees, scoring teams, portfolio judges, and as workshop leaders. This study will add a research component to this evaluation design and data analysis among core groups of these teachers. The majority of those involved will be from schools heavily involved in implementing high quality coordinated or integrated science from all students, which is the platform of California's SS&C project. These teachers will design surveys to monitor attitudes and pathways of learning of students, and progressive subject matter tests, will score essays, performance tasks, and portfolios, and will analyze results to make recommendations for future assessmen t and evaluation implementation efforts.