Accumulating Knowledge on Scaling and Sustaining Reform: A Foundation for Future Research

该项目有三个主要目标： 1）为积累教育改革的传播和可持续性知识提供基础，重点是科学教育； 2）确定有关其他学科创新的传播和可持续性的知识如何为教育改进工作提供信息； 3) 建立一个跨学科合作和分享创新扩散和可持续性知识的论坛。这些目标将通过两种策略来实现。第一部分包括对科学教育、其他教育领域以及其他领域（包括商业、营销、医学、公共卫生和经济学）创新的扩散和可持续性的全面文献综述。智力优势：该项目旨在为积累有关教育改革的可持续性和传播的知识奠定基础。它采取了必要的步骤，寻找在这些领域更先进的其他学术领域，以便为科学和数学教育研究提供共同的语言和概念框架，这些框架是严肃的调查和对话所必需的，以支持一个领域的知识积累。 更广泛的影响：该项目满足了国家确定和扩大教学和教育有效实践或创新的需求，以便该领域能够开始对数学和科学教学进行长期改进。随着新实践的开发和规模化，他们将从该项目中受益，使用其产品明确有效地支持创新的采用、实施和传播。

This project has three main goals: 1) To provide a foundation for accumulating knowledge about diffusion and sustainability of reform in education with an emphasis on science education; 2) To identify ways that knowledge about diffusion and sustainability of innovations in other disciplines can inform improvement efforts in education; and 3) To establish a forum for cross-disciplinary collaboration and sharing knowledge on diffusion and sustainability of innovations. These goals will be addressed with two strategies. The first comprises comprehensive literature reviews on diffusion and sustainability of innovation in science education, other areas of education and other fields including business, marketing, medicine, public health, and economics. Intellectual Merit: This project seeks to create a foundation for accumulating knowledge about sustainability and diffusion of reform in education. It takes the essential steps of looking to other fields of scholarship that are more advanced in these areas in order to provide science and mathematics education research with the shared language and conceptual framework necessary for the serious investigation and dialogue that supports accumulation of knowledge in a field. Broader Impact: This project addresses the national need to identify and scale up effective practices or innovations in instruction and education so that the field can begin to make long-term improvements to mathematics and science instruction. As new practices are developed and brought to scale, they will benefit from this project by using its products to explicitly and effectively support innovation adoption, implementation and dissemination.