IERI/REC: Planning an Infrastructure to Support Ambitious Science for Urban School Children

IERI/REC：规划基础设施以支持城市学童的雄心勃勃的科学

• 批准号: 0115716
• 负责人: Louis Gomez
• 金额: $ 27.85万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-15 至 2004-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0115716&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IERI; REC; Planning; Infrastructure; Support

This planning grant proposal will examine the professional development experiences that are most likely to help children in urban settings to be more successful learners of "ambitious" science. To do so, the PIs will create a data system that allows for detailed articulation of the ways that teachers' opportunities for growth translate into learning outcomes for children. The model for the work begins with actual classroom practices, then examines student growth (defined by achievement test scores) and the kinds of development experiences that result in successful student learning. Specifically, the planning grant with refine and develop new measures of student learning; develop a coding scheme for professional development experiences; refine and codify the PIs existing scheme for analyzing classroom practice; and use test cases to explore the feasibility of the methodology.Panel Summary: The panel was enthusiastic about the importance and scope of the study and viewed the ideas about enactment and the conceptualization of change in the proposal particularly favorably. The concerns raised by the panel included: the project is very ambitious given the eighteen-month timeframe; and the proposal is short on detail in both methodology and theory. However, panelists understood that some of the conceptualizations would necessarily be somewhat vague in a planning grant.An additional concern included the commitment of the PIs in other research projects. Analysis: The panelists felt that this was a planning grant with potential to yield important new measures and understandings regarding links between teacher professional development and student learning. The PIs are highly qualified. In spite of concerns about the ambition of the project and the vagueness of some aspects of the underlying theory and methodology, the Program Officer agrees with the panel that this planning grant holds great promise for producing information that will be helpful to schools and those interested in science reform. However, the PIs should take care to address the concerns raised in the review in the submission of a full proposal.Program Director Recommendation: Based on the ratings received in the panel review, the comments contained in the written reviews, the panel discussion, and the analysis described above, I recommend that this proposal be funded for 18 months as a standard grant at the level of $278,504.

这项规划补助金提案将审查最有可能帮助城市环境中的儿童成为“雄心勃勃”科学的更成功学习者的专业发展经验。为此，PI将创建一个数据系统，以便详细阐述教师的成长机会如何转化为儿童的学习成果。 该工作的模型从实际的课堂实践开始，然后检查学生的成长（由成绩测试分数定义）和导致学生成功学习的各种发展经验。 具体而言，规划补助金将用于完善和开发学生学习的新措施;开发专业发展经验的编码方案;完善和编纂PI现有的课堂实践分析方案;并使用测试案例来探索方法的可行性。专题小组对研究的重要性和范围表示热烈欢迎，并审议了关于颁布法律的想法和《公约》中变革的概念化问题。建议特别有利。 该小组提出的关切包括：鉴于18个月的时间表，该项目雄心勃勃;该提案在方法和理论方面都缺乏细节。然而，小组成员明白，在规划拨款中，一些概念必然会有些模糊，另一个关注点包括私人研究员在其他研究项目中的承担。分析：小组成员认为，这是一个规划赠款，有可能产生重要的新措施和理解之间的联系教师专业发展和学生学习。 私家侦探都是高素质的。 尽管对该项目的雄心和基本理论和方法的某些方面的复杂性表示担忧，但项目官员同意专家组的意见，即这项规划拨款对产生有助于学校和对科学改革感兴趣的人的信息具有很大的希望。 然而，PI在提交完整的提案时应注意解决评审中提出的问题。计划主任建议：根据小组评审中收到的评分、书面评审中包含的评论、小组讨论和上述分析，我建议将此提案作为标准补助金资助18个月，金额为278，504美元。