ITEST Scale-Up: Innovative Technology for Science Inquiry Scale-Up Project (ITSI-SU)

这个ITEST规模扩大项目（ITSI-SU）的目标是解决对基于研究的科学材料和教学技术的需求，这些材料和教学技术可以在3-12年级的学生科学成绩中产生明显的改善。该项目将直接惠及四个州的264名教师和10 000名学生，并有能力在传播阶段惠及全国另外1 500名教师和50 000名学生，如果教师和培训人员采用项目产生的资源，则覆盖人数还会更多。ITSI-SU旨在通过专注于引导学生使用prowaree，计算模型和其他交互式材料进行探究来改善基于标准的科学教学。ITSI-SU代表了康科德联盟的科学教学信息技术（ITSI）项目的全国规模扩大，该项目为马萨诸塞州、堪萨斯、宾夕法尼亚州和加州的90名教师提供服务。ITSI-SU将在两个夏天和一年内提供77小时的基于研究的专业发展。与会者将有机会获得大量基于开源软件的复杂免费材料，其中包括数百个使用模型和工具的活动。教师将通过定制活动，开发基于标准的活动单元以及在课堂上进行测试来学习内容，技术使用和教学法。然后，参与者报告他们的定制，观察和他们的学生的学习收获。定制的材料和报告又被提供给一个不断扩大的在线材料库。劳动力问题通过利用STEM领域的职业与学生在ITSI-SU单位中使用的技术之间的许多联系来解决。正在扩大规模的ITSI项目已经创建了现有最大的高质量、在线、技术支持的科学学习材料库之一。它的协作材料开发方法代表了开发，共享和支持STEM教育材料的新方式。ITSI-SU可以带头重新定义STEM课程，如何进行教学，以及教育研究可以衡量什么。材料是流动的，易于适应新的发展，资源和需求。利用这种流动性来定制材料是ITSI用于专业发展的关键策略。ITSI-SU将通过利用虚拟社区的专业知识来扩展这种方法，以根据科学家，教师和研究人员的投入不断评估和改进材料。这些材料包括自动记录，记录和分析学生与软件的互动，提供详细的数据，有可能提高教师的效能和回答重要的研究问题。该项目研究解决了ITSI-SU计划如何影响学生的学习，探究技能以及对STEM内容和职业的态度。

The goal of this ITEST scale-up project (ITSI-SU) is to address the need for research-based science materials and teaching techniques that generate demonstrable improvements in student science achievement in grades 3-12. The project will reach 264 teachers directly and 10,000 students in four states and has the capacity to reach another 1,500 teachers and 50,000 students nationwide in a dissemination phase, and still more if teachers and trainers adopt project-generated resources. ITSI-SU is designed to improve standards-based science instruction through a focus on guided student inquiry using probeware, computational models, and other interactive materials. ITSI-SU represents a national scale-up of the Information Technology in Science Instruction (ITSI) project at the Concord Consortium that serves 90 teachers in Massachusetts, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and California. ITSI-SU will offer 77 hours of research-based professional development over two summers and the intervening year. Participants will have access to a large online collection of sophisticated free materials based on open source software that includes hundreds of activities that use models and tools. Teachers will learn the content, technology use, and pedagogy by customizing the activities, developing standards-based units from the activities, and testing in their classrooms. Participants then report on their customizations, observations, and their students' learning gains. The customized materials and reports are contributed in turn to a growing online materials library. Workforce issues are addressed throughout by exploiting the many connections between careers in STEM fields and the technologies that students use in the ITSI-SU units. The ITSI project that is being scaled up has already created one of the largest collections of high-quality, online, technology-enabled science learning materials in existence. Its approach to collaborative materials development represents a new way of developing, sharing, and supporting STEM educational materials. ITSI-SU could spearhead a redefinition of STEM curriculum, how teaching is done, and what educational research can measure. The materials are fluid and easy to adapt to new developments, resources, and needs. Exploiting this fluidity to customize the materials is a key strategy ITSI uses for professional development. ITSI-SU will expand this approach by engaging the expertise of a virtual community to evaluate continually and improve the materials based on inputs from scientists, teachers, and researchers. The materials include automatic logging that records and analyzes student interactions with the software, providing detailed data that has the potential to increase teacher efficacy and to answer important research questions. The project research addresses how the ITSI-SU program impacts student learning, inquiry skills, and attitudes toward STEM content and careers.