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

ITEST 扩大规模：科学探究扩大项目的创新技术 (ITSI-SU)

• 批准号: 0929540
• 负责人: Carolyn Staudt
• 金额: $ 249.29万
• 依托单位: Concord Consortium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0929540&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITEST; Scale; Up; Innovative; Technology

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.

ITEST 扩大项目 (ITSI-SU) 的目标是满足对基于研究的科学材料和教学技术的需求，从而显着提高 3-12 年级学生的科学成绩。该项目将直接覆盖四个州的 264 名教师和 10,000 名学生，并有能力在传播阶段覆盖全国另外 1,500 名教师和 50,000 名学生，如果教师和培训师采用项目生成的资源，则覆盖范围还会更多。 ITSI-SU 旨在通过使用探针软件、计算模型和其他交互式材料引导学生探究来改进基于标准的科学教学。 ITSI-SU 代表了 Concord 联盟科学教学信息技术 (ITSI) 项目在全国范围内的扩展，该项目为马萨诸塞州、堪萨斯州、宾夕法尼亚州和加利福尼亚州的 90 名教师提供服务。 ITSI-SU 将在两个夏季和接下来的一年内提供 77 小时的基于研究的专业发展课程。参与者将可以访问大量基于开源软件的复杂免费材料的在线集合，其中包括数百项使用模型和工具的活动。教师将通过定制活动、从活动中开发基于标准的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、观察结果以及学生的学习收获。定制的材料和报告又被贡献给不断增长的在线材料库。通过利用 STEM 领域的职业与学生在 ITSI-SU 单位使用的技术之间的许多联系来解决劳动力问题。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集合之一。其协作材料开发方法代表了一种开发、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、教学方式以及教育研究可以衡量的内容。这些材料具有流动性，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，根据科学家、教师和研究人员的意见不断评估和改进材料。这些材料包括自动记录，可记录和分析学生与软件的交互，提供有可能提高教师效率并回答重要研究问题的详细数据。该项目研究探讨了 ITSI-SU 项目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。