Science Indicators Instrumentation Improvement Workshop

科学指标仪器改进研讨会

• 批准号: 1059876
• 负责人: Thomas Guterbock
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1059876&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Science; Indicators; Instrumentation; Improvement; Workshop

The proposal requests support for a one-day workshop to review and suggest improvements in the instrumentation used in the Surveys of Public Attitudes Toward and Understanding of Science and Technology. The workshop will bring together survey methodologists and substantive experts at NSF headquarters in Arlington, VA. The participants will consider the wording of questions, the structure of response scales, the meaning of terms used in the questions, and the range and overlap of the items in light of the concepts that they are designed to measure and the need for comparability and continuity of measurement. Participants at the workshop will include leading experts in questionnaire construction, cognitive approaches to survey design, psychometrics, and item response theory, along with substantive experts in measurement of scientific literacy. Scholars who have published leading work on measurement issues in science literacy will also be invited.The results from the Surveys of Public Attitudes Toward and Understanding of Science and Technology have usually been included in the NSB's annual Science and Engineering Indicators, a report which goes directly to the White House and informs public debate about science education and public support of science in the United States. It is vital that the reported survey results be based on sound, tested survey questions that ask about the right issues and provide high-quality measurement of the key concepts that reveal public understanding of science--or the lack thereof. The workshop will review and improve key items on the survey and align these instruments more closely with the relevant concepts. These improvements will allow for a more revealing and more robust assessment of public understanding in future editions of the Science Indicators report and serve as a more reliable guide for future science policy in the United States.

该提案要求支持举办为期一天的讲习班，审查公众对科学和技术的态度和了解调查中使用的仪器，并提出改进建议。研讨会将汇集来自弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿国家科学基金会总部的调查方法学家和实务专家，与会者将考虑问题的措辞、反应量表的结构、问题中使用的术语的含义，以及根据设计用于测量的概念和测量的可比性和连续性的需要，项目的范围和重叠。研讨会的参与者将包括问卷构建、调查设计的认知方法、心理测量学和项目反应理论方面的主要专家，以及科学素养测量方面的实质性专家。还将邀请在科学素养测量问题上发表过重要著作的学者。公众对科学和技术的态度和理解调查的结果通常包括在NSB的年度科学和工程指标中，该报告直接提交给白宫，并告知公众关于美国科学教育和公众对科学支持的辩论。至关重要的是，报告的调查结果必须基于合理的、经过测试的调查问题，这些问题提出了正确的问题，并对揭示公众对科学的理解或缺乏理解的关键概念提供了高质量的衡量。讲习班将审查和改进调查的关键项目，并使这些文书与有关概念更紧密地结合起来。这些改进将允许在科学指标报告的未来版本中对公众理解进行更有揭示性和更有力的评估，并为美国未来的科学政策提供更可靠的指导。