Center for Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning

学生学习评估与评价中心

• 批准号: 0119790
• 负责人: Steven Schneider
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: WestEd
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0119790&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Center; Assessment; Evaluation; Student; Learning

The Center for Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning (CAESL) addresses the national need for increasing the assessment capacity within the K-12 science education system. Increasing "assessment capacity" means enhancing the expertise, designs, structures and supports that enable local districts and schools to use assessment as a critical tool for enhancing science learning. The primary focus of the Center will be classroom assessment practices. However, because of the enormous pressure that standardized and/or state-mandated assessments place on students and teachers, the project also seeks to better align large-scale assessments with ongoing formative classroom assessments that inform teaching and improve learning.The Center is a collaboration among: the Concord Consortium; the Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)/University of California, Los Angeles; Stanford University; Lawrence Hall of Science; the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley; and WestEd, who will act as the coordinator. There are several major school district partners that will collaborate with the Center and serve as testbeds for Center activities and resources. The project also works with San Jose State University, a major teacher preparation institution, to co-develop and integrate a variety of assessment resources into its preservice and graduate programs. The Center's graduate programs are aimed to make significant practical, conceptual and methodological contributions to the assessment of science learning and achievement. The Graduate Schools of Education at UC-Berkeley, UCLA and Stanford will develop a cooperative approach to the masters and doctoral programs to be called the Learning and Assessment Program (LAP) for 43 students. The LAP includes a series of core courses on science, learning, cognition and assessment; testing and assessment; and curriculum, teaching and assessment. Students can "telecommute" to take courses at institutions other than their own, and all students will participate in a practicum on assessment development.The professional development component will be led by the Lawrence Hall of Science, the Concord Consortium, and WestEd. Participating districts will be part of three-year cohorts and assemble teams of teachers and district administrators who will participate in 15 days of professional development each year over three years, along with follow-up sessions at school sites. The professional development focuses on testing and using formative classroom assessments. Experiences and products developed as part of this component will be disseminated widely to other schools or districts through the extensive networks of the Lawrence Hall and WestEd. The applied research component examines (1) the formative and summative assessment strategies that most effectively increase student learning and understanding; and (2) how educational technology can enhance assessment practices.Finally, the project targets public understanding of assessment and the Lawrence Hall of Science and CRESST/UCLA will mount a public outreach effort that translates the work of the Center for school administrators, parents and community members.

学生学习评估和评价中心（CAESL）解决了在K-12科学教育系统内提高评估能力的国家需求。提高“评估能力”意味着加强专业知识、设计、结构和支持，使地方地区和学校能够将评估作为加强科学学习的关键工具。该中心的主要重点将是课堂评估实践。然而，由于标准化和（或）国家规定的评估给学生和教师带来巨大压力，该项目还寻求将大规模评估与正在进行的形成性课堂评估更好地结合起来，为教学提供信息并改善学习。该中心由以下机构合作：康科德财团；评估、标准和学生测试研究中心(CRESST)/加州大学洛杉矶分校；斯坦福大学;劳伦斯科学馆；加州大学伯克利分校教育研究生院；以及将担任协调员的韦斯特。有几个主要的学区合作伙伴将与中心合作，并作为中心活动和资源的试验台。该项目还与主要的教师培训机构圣何塞州立大学合作，共同开发和整合各种评估资源到其职前和研究生课程中。中心的研究生课程旨在为科学学习和成就的评估做出重要的实践、概念和方法上的贡献。加州大学伯克利分校、加州大学洛杉矶分校和斯坦福大学的教育研究生院将为43名学生开发一种名为“学习和评估计划”（LAP）的硕士和博士课程合作方法。LAP包括一系列关于科学、学习、认知和评估的核心课程；测试和评估；课程，教学和评估。学生可以“远程办公”到其他机构上课，所有学生都将参加评估发展的实习。专业发展部分将由Lawrence Hall of Science、Concord Consortium和WestEd牵头。参与的地区将成为三年小组的一部分，并召集教师和地区行政人员组成的团队，他们将在三年内每年参加为期15天的专业发展，并在学校现场进行后续会议。专业发展的重点是测试和使用形成性课堂评估。作为这一组成部分的一部分开发的经验和产品将通过劳伦斯霍尔和韦斯特的广泛网络广泛传播给其他学校或地区。应用研究部分考察(1)最有效地提高学生学习和理解的形成性和总结性评估策略；(2)教育技术如何加强评估实践。最后，该项目以公众对评估的理解为目标，劳伦斯科学馆和CRESST/UCLA将开展公共宣传工作，将中心的工作转化为学校管理者、家长和社区成员。