SBIR Phase I: Linking Curriculum and Assessment: Products and Services from Research to Classroom

SBIR 第一阶段：将课程和评估联系起来：从研究到课堂的产品和服务

• 批准号: 0340114
• 负责人: Paul Horwitz
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Educational Network Services, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-01-01 至 2004-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0340114&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Linking; Curriculum; Assessment

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to create a series of interactive curriculum and assessment materials for middle and high school science. These materials will be in the form of computer-based activities that use scaffolded, manipulable models to encourage scientific reasoning. In addition to capturing their answers to specific questions, the activities will monitor students' actions as they engage in exploratory and problem-solving tasks. This rich source of information will be automatically transferred where it will be analyzed and made available to teachers for embedded assessment of students' content knowledge and reasoning skills. The technology produced by this project will enable researchers and educators to create and customize novel education activities that guide and monitor students' actions as they solve increasingly difficult problems using computer models of scientific phenomena. The technology enables extremely fine-grained performance data to be collected from very large numbers of subjects. This combination will create unprecedented opportunities for conducting scientific research in education.Research with computer-based, interactive curriculum materials demonstrates that they impose no extraordinary requirements for teacher professional development, and are disproportionately effective with precisely those students whom traditional science teaching often leaves behind. By bringing up-to-date research results to the classroom in the form of easily accessible reports on student achievement, the project will accelerate a shift away from the current post hoc, multiple-choice testing modality, in favor of real-time embedded assessment of critical aspects of science learning that are difficult to measure by conventional techniques. The project will give teachers a tool that will help them reach underachieving students, coupled with a powerful assessment technique that will provide them with a continuous measure of their students' learning.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目旨在为初中和高中科学创建一系列互动课程和评估材料。 这些材料将以计算机为基础的活动的形式，使用脚手架，可操作的模型，以鼓励科学推理。 除了捕捉他们对具体问题的答案外，这些活动还将监测学生在参与探索和解决问题任务时的行动。 这些丰富的信息源将被自动传输，并将被分析和提供给教师，用于嵌入式评估学生的内容知识和推理技能。 该项目产生的技术将使研究人员和教育工作者能够创建和定制新颖的教育活动，指导和监测学生的行动，因为他们使用科学现象的计算机模型解决越来越困难的问题。 该技术能够从大量受试者中收集极细粒度的性能数据。 这种结合将为教育领域的科学研究创造前所未有的机会。对基于计算机的交互式课程材料的研究表明，它们对教师的专业发展没有特别的要求，而且对那些传统科学教学经常落后的学生来说，效果不成比例。 通过将最新的研究结果以易于访问的学生成绩报告的形式带到课堂，该项目将加速从目前的事后多项选择测试模式转变为实时嵌入式评估科学学习的关键方面，这些方面难以通过传统技术来衡量。 该项目将为教师提供一种工具，帮助他们接触成绩不佳的学生，同时提供一种强大的评估技术，为他们提供对学生学习情况的持续衡量。