Researching the Wireless High School: Effects on Science Teaching and Implications for Professional Development

本研究通过有目的地抽样调查具有高实施者的学校，调查无线环境对高中科学的影响。将对五所学校进行审查，并收集关于每一所学校的多种形式的广泛数据。该项目使用深入的案例研究来检查背景因素(例如，技术实施计划、学校文化、教师专业发展的范围和类型以及教师背景)以及可能影响无线高中科学课堂中的科学教学实践的关键互动。这项研究将产生一个基于证据和理论基础的专业发展模式，为专业开发人员、管理人员、政策制定者和教师提供信息。这项研究将有助专业发展主任发展专业发展模式，以协助学校就初步安装、部署和培训作出合理选择；以及协助教师轻松取用数码资源、选择有助他们达到教学目标的资源、有效评估数码资源的质素，以丰富学生对科学的理解和内容；制订教学策略，让学生与这些资源互动，以丰富课堂话语和互动；以及制订策略，有效地使用数码资源，从而评估学生的工作。

This research study investigates the impact of the wireless environment on high school science using a purposeful sampling of schools with high implementers. Five schools will be examined and extensive data in multiple forms will be collected on each. The project uses in-depth case studies to examine context factors (e.g. technology implementation plans, school culture, extent and type of teacher professional development and teacher background) and critical interactions that may influence science instructional practice in wireless high school science classrooms. The study will result in an evidence-based and theoretically-grounded professional development model that will inform professional developers, administrators, policy-makers and teachers. The research will enable the PIs to develop a professional development model to help schools make reasonable choices about initial installation, deployment and training; and to help teachers to access digital resources with ease, select resources that will further their teaching goals, effectively evaluate the quality of a digital resource in terms of the additional value that it affords to enrich science understanding and content, develop pedagogical strategies to enable student interactivity with such resources to enrich classroom discourse and interaction, and develop strategies to use digital resources effectively in being able to assess student work.