Advocating for an Inventive and Transformative Recovery in National STEM Education

倡导国家 STEM 教育的创造性和变革性复苏

• 批准号: 0947782
• 负责人: Margret Hjalmarson
• 金额: $ 16.86万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2012-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0947782&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Advocating; Inventive; Transformative; Recovery; National

The US Department of Education is disbursing about $5 billion in ARRA funds to states aimed at promoting innovations in the educational system. The stated model for disbursing these funds is to support the goals of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the America Competes Act of 2007, within the framing of No Child Left Behind. There is extensive scientific discussion about how to allocate and measure the impact of this $5 billion. The goal of this project is to convene an expert panel to examine the proposed framework for disbursing the funds for innovation in education from the points of view of learning, technology, science and economics in the light of prior reform efforts. The resulting papers and monograph draw on the theoretical and empirical literature to describe policies and practices that provide a scientific basis for the federal and state investments of the innovation dollars. Such investments include: (a) ?start at the top? programs that link high school teachers and students and faculty and undergraduates with authentic science practices with likely economic payoff, (b) richer forms of assessment of authentic science and mathematics learning, and (c) more sophisticated economic measures of student achievement. Broader Impacts: The potential broader impact of this project is the provision of a scientific basis for the definition, implementation and measurement of outcomes associated with investments in educational innovation. The broader impacts include the generation of richer measures of achievement in student learning and of STEM investment outcomes in general. In addition, the project supports policies that involve modern assessments and sophisticated economic tracking of achievement, each of which is key to the successful management of what is likely the largest investment in innovation in education ever attempted by the United States.

美国教育部正在向各州支付约50亿美元的ARRA基金，旨在促进教育系统的创新。这些资金的分配模式是在“不让一个孩子掉队”的框架下，支持《中小学教育法》和2007年《美国竞争法》的目标。关于如何分配和衡量这50亿美元的影响，人们进行了广泛的科学讨论。这个项目的目标是召集一个专家小组，参照以前的改革努力，从学习、技术、科学和经济的角度审查拟议的教育创新资金分配框架。由此产生的论文和专著借鉴了理论和实证文献，描述了为联邦和州投资创新资金提供科学基础的政策和实践。这些投资包括：(a) ？从高层开始？将高中教师、学生、教师和本科生与具有可能经济回报的真实科学实践联系起来的项目，(b)对真实科学和数学学习的更丰富的评估形式，以及(c)对学生成就的更复杂的经济衡量标准。更广泛的影响：本项目潜在的更广泛的影响是为教育创新投资相关成果的定义、实施和衡量提供科学依据。更广泛的影响包括产生更丰富的学生学习成绩和STEM投资结果的衡量标准。此外，该项目支持涉及现代评估和复杂的成果经济跟踪的政策，每一项都是成功管理可能是美国有史以来最大的教育创新投资的关键。