Workshop for Education Leaders and Evaluators on Improved Methods of Evaluating Quality of Professional Development for Mathematics and Science Teachers

州立首席学校官员委员会(CCSSO)提议领导一个项目，该项目将提供培训、技术援助和传播关于以研究为基础的评估教师专业发展质量的方法的结果，并就使用有效的评估项目的模式提供培训和援助，以提高国家支持的项目的专业发展结果的质量。该项目的一个主要贡献将是提供基于研究的证据、标准和工具，供州领导人和项目评估者使用，以确定数学和科学教师专业发展的质量和有效性。研究已经确定了在提高教师的技能和知识并影响教学实践方面最有效的方案倡议的特点：1)注重内容，2)学校内部合作，3)与其他活动(如课程和标准)的一致性，4)足够的持续时间和后续行动，5)积极的学习方法，6)活动的组织。CCSSO的独特之处在于其组织结构，它在关键的K-12教育政策问题上向各州提供领导，并在研究和评估方面向各州专家提供技术援助。该项目旨在实现提高科学和数学教师专业发展评估质量的几个具体目标：(1)向各州的教育领导人传播研究结果，以帮助他们努力改进广泛的专业发展评估模型，(2)确定关键数据项和质量衡量标准，以及(3)应用增值模型来确定效果。

The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) proposes to lead a project that will provide training, technical assistance, and dissemination of findings regarding research-based methods of rating the quality of teacher professional development, and training and assistance on use of effective models for evaluating programs that will improve the quality of findings regarding professional development across state-supported programs. A key contribution of this project will be to provide research-based evidence and criteria and tools for use by state leaders and program evaluators to determine the quality and effectiveness of math and science teacher professional development. Research studies have identified the characteristics of program initiatives that are most effective in improving the skills and knowledge of teachers and influencing teaching practice: 1) content-focused, 2) collaboration within schools, 3) coherence with other activities (e.g., curriculum and standards), 4) sufficient duration and follow-up, 5) active learning methods, and 6) organization of activity. CCSSO is unique in its ability, through its organizational structure to provide leadership to states on key education K-12 policy issues and technical assistance to state specialists on research and evaluation. The project is designed to accomplish several specific goals toward advancing the quality of evaluation of professional development with teachers of science and math: (1) disseminate study findings to education leaders in all states to assist them with their efforts to improve models for broad-scale evaluation of professional development, (2) identify key data items and measures of quality, and (3) apply value-added models for determining effects.