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

该项目有三个主要目标：1)以科学教育为重点，为积累有关教育改革扩散和可持续性的知识奠定基础；2)确定其他学科创新扩散和可持续性的知识可为改进教育工作提供信息的途径；3)建立一个跨学科协作和分享创新扩散和可持续性知识的论坛。这些目标将通过两项战略加以解决。第一部分包括关于科学教育、其他教育领域以及商业、营销、医药、公共卫生和经济等领域创新扩散和可持续性的全面文献综述。智力价值：该项目旨在为积累关于教育改革可持续性和传播的知识奠定基础。它采取了必要的步骤，将目光投向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必要的共享语言和概念框架，以便进行认真的调查和对话，从而支持某一领域的知识积累。更广泛的影响：该项目解决了国家在教学和教育中确定和扩大有效做法或创新的需要，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，它们将从该项目中受益，利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.