Building a Methodology for Developing and Evaluating Instructionally Sensitive Assessments

建立开发和评估教学敏感评估的方法

• 批准号: 0816123
• 负责人: Maria Araceli Ruiz-Primo
• 金额: $ 101.59万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Denver-Downtown Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0816123&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Methodology; Developing; Evaluating; Instructionally

Project Abstract:The purpose of this project is to build and empirically test a comprehensive approach for developing instructionally sensitive assessments that can provide a better picture of the extent that science instruction impacts student achievement. The project will develop and test an assessment approach that can improve the way that assessments are conceptualized and used for evaluation studies and/or accountability purposes. The large-scale, standardized, assessments students take may not be directly tied to the curriculum they are studying. This situation sets up a tension between the knowledge and competencies students are able to demonstrate on a particular assessment and those they may have which the assessment does not in fact probe. The goal of the project is to address this tension. The project will advance knowledge about validity that is critical to the evaluation of the effectiveness of instruction or instructional programs; it will expand the strategies available for developing and evaluating instructionally sensitive assessments; and it will provide evidence about the importance of implementing assessments varying in instructional sensitivity for accountability or program effectiveness purposes. The proposed research activities will guide future evaluation research and assessment development. The project aims to improve the science assessment practices in the participating school districts, mostly serving disadvantaged student populations. The project will provide training to participating teachers on how to develop and evaluate instructionally sensitive assessments, introduce strategies that can be used in their daily practice to judge the quality of the assessments and link assessments to instruction, and disseminate the approach and relevant materials to teachers in non-participating schools or school districts.

项目摘要：本项目的目的是建立和实证检验一个全面的方法，发展敏感的评估，可以提供一个更好的图片的程度，科学教学影响学生的成绩。该项目将制定和测试一种评估方法，以改进评估的概念化方式，并将其用于评价研究和（或）问责目的。学生参加的大规模标准化评估可能与他们正在学习的课程没有直接联系。这种情况在学生能够在特定评估中展示的知识和能力与他们可能拥有的评估实际上没有探讨的知识和能力之间造成了紧张关系。该项目的目标是解决这种紧张局势。该项目将推进知识的有效性，这是至关重要的教学或教学计划的有效性的评估;它将扩大战略可用于开发和评估教学敏感性的评估;它将提供证据的重要性，实施评估不同的教学敏感性的问责制或程序的有效性的目的。拟议的研究活动将指导今后的评价研究和评估工作。该项目旨在改善参与学区的科学评估做法，主要服务于弱势学生群体。该项目将向参与的教师提供培训，使他们了解如何制定和评价对教学敏感的评估，介绍可在日常实践中使用的战略，以判断评估的质量，并将评估与教学联系起来，并向未参与的学校或学区的教师传播这一方法和相关材料。