Exploratory Research to Develop Methods for Studying Adult Development in Math Teacher Professional Development

这个为期16个月的项目的重点是探索使用基根的成人发展理论来解释的重要差异教师在同一数学专业发展的经验。 目前唯一的衡量这种发展差异的方法是主客体访谈，它既昂贵又耗费人力。 该项目将开发一个书面的工具和方法，将提供一个更经济，更少的劳动密集型措施的成人发展理论，并允许未来的研究发展差异对教师的经验内和跨专业发展计划。

This 16-month project focuses on exploring the use of Kegan's adult developmental theory to explain the important differences teachers experience in the same mathematics professional development. The only current measure of this developmental difference, the Subject-Object Interview, is expensive and labor-intensive to administer. This project will develop a written instrument and methods that would provide a more economic and less labor-intensive measure of adult developmental theory and would allow for future study of the impact of developmental differences on teachers' experiences within and across professional development programs.