Quantitative Methods for Public Policy

公共政策的定量方法

• 批准号: 0229967
• 负责人: David Bressoud
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: Macalester College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-02-01 至 2006-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0229967&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Quantitative; Methods; Public; Policy

What is Quantitative Literacy? How do you teach it? How do you measure it? How can you develop a program that will ensure that all undergraduates have it by the time they graduate? Faculty from Macalester College, joined by colleagues from Carleton, Grinnell, Lawrence, and St. Olaf, are thinking deeply about these questions and are testing a concept. A pilot program is running at Macalester and the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) has funded a four-year project to develop, implement, and assess an extension of this model and to begin to disseminate it to other institutions. The NSF project is complementing the FIPSE project by providing support for additional workshop activities, preparation of student projects and assignments, and development of a web site and a professional brochure. Some partial funding is being provided to institutions who will test the Macalester model.The program is interdisciplinary. The pilot year involve courses in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Political Science, Geography, and English. It is also cohesive. The focus is on public policy, and all courses use the same policy issue to illustrate applications. All students come together one evening per week to hear experts debate the policy issue and talk about their own use of quantitative methods in analyzing options. The policy topic however changes from year to year. While certain core courses participate every year, other departments participate only when the topic is particularly relevant. This is a mechanism for drawing in less quantitative departments. Viewing quantitative methods through the lens of policy analysis has the potential to be a strong motivator for students, demonstrating the power of quantitative methods in a context students recognize as important.

什么是定量素养？你怎么教它？你如何衡量它？您如何制定一个计划，确保所有本科生在毕业时都能获得该计划？马卡莱斯特学院的教师与卡尔顿学院、格林内尔学院、劳伦斯学院和圣奥拉夫学院的同事一起，正在深入思考这些问题，并正在测试一个概念。麦卡莱斯特正在实施一项试点计划，高等教育改善基金 (FIPSE) 资助了一个为期四年的项目，以开发、实施和评估该模型的扩展，并开始将其传播到其他机构。 NSF 项目通过为额外的研讨会活动、学生项目和作业的准备以及网站和专业手册的开发提供支持来补充 FIPSE 项目。一些部分资金正在提供给将测试麦卡莱斯特模型的机构。该项目是跨学科的。试点年涉及数学、统计学、经济学、政治学、地理和英语课程。它也是有凝聚力的。重点是公共政策，所有课程都使用相同的政策问题来说明应用。所有学生每周一个晚上聚集在一起，聆听专家辩论政策问题，并谈论他们自己在分析选项时使用的定量方法。然而，政策主题每年都在变化。虽然某些核心课程每年都会参加，但其他院系仅在主题特别相关时才参加。这是一种吸引数量较少的部门的机制。从政策分析的角度看待定量方法有可能成为学生的强大动力，在学生认为重要的背景下展示定量方法的力量。