CSAMS, Coordinated Science Assessment Model Study

9450208米勒需要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，将其作为科学学习和成就的质量和数量的有效衡量标准。三项金州理科考试(生物学、化学和协调科学)已在加州高中广泛开展和实施。本研究旨在利用这些考试、参加考试的学生和教授这些学生的教师作为基础，开始建立参数和方法，这些参数和方法可以在未来监督中学科学改革的大规模努力中最有效地使用。这项研究将集中(但不是唯一的)与国家范围合作的学校，以及顺序和协调(SS&Amp；C)项目改革。金州考试的制定和实施是学校理科教师和大学理科教师共同努力的结果。这种团队合作对数百名科学教师来说是一个宝贵的职业发展机会，他们参与了考试的各个方面，如发展委员会、计分团队、档案袋评委和研讨会负责人。本研究将在这些教师核心群体的评价设计和数据分析中增加一个研究成分。大多数参与者将来自学校，他们积极参与实施所有学生的高质量、协调或综合的科学，这是加州SS&Amp；C项目的平台。这些教师将设计调查，以监测学生的态度和学习途径，以及渐进的主题测试，将对论文、绩效任务和文件夹进行评分，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.