Collaborative Research: Supporting the Emergence of a Professional Teaching Community Through Collective Knowledge-building in Assessment and Feedback of Mathematical Thinking

协作研究：通过数学思维评估和反馈的集体知识建设支持专业教学社区的出现

• 批准号: 1221351
• 负责人: Carol Brandt
• 金额: $ 11.69万
• 依托单位: Temple University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1221351&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Supporting; Emergence; Professional

This collaborative work involves Drexel University and Temple University where they are developing an online, professional teaching community that is addressing issues of assessment in mathematics classes. The developers are building on the success of the NSF-supported Math Forum's Problem of the Week program to create a community that is working to increase students' mathematics learning by helping teachers stimulate student thinking, assess that thinking, and provide useful feedback to students. The teachers are working together to create rubrics for assessing the progress of students as they solve challenging mathematics problems. The program is structured so that the teachers are learning mathematics and assessment strategies in addition to establishing a research-based model for online, professional communities.Researchers are studying how specific activities (e.g., discourse, active participation, use of rubrics, feedback, and reflection) and an online community support teachers' engagement in authentic and generative assessment. Researchers are using ethnographic methods to understand the development of the community, and conducting focus groups and individual interviews to determine the impact of participation in the community on mathematics teachers. In addition, they are collecting data through discourse analysis, student work analysis, and rubric analysis to determine the optimal design of the products. The intentional structure of the online community builds on research findings on creating professional communities and research on assessing mathematics learning. Online professional teaching communities offer new venues for communication, professional development, and shared work among mathematics teachers. The Math Forum provides an optimal, online context for expanding the popular Problem of the Week into a productive discussion of assessment of problem solving, the building of specific rubrics, and the related reflection on how to encourage student thinking. This collaborative work will offer rubrics for assessing mathematical problem solving, a new model for online professional development, and extensive information on building an online mathematics community.

这项合作涉及德雷克塞尔大学和坦普尔大学，他们正在开发一个在线的专业教学社区，解决数学课程评估的问题。开发人员正在建立在NSF支持的数学论坛的每周问题计划的成功基础上，创建一个社区，通过帮助教师激发学生的思维，评估思维，并为学生提供有用的反馈，来提高学生的数学学习。 教师们正在共同努力，创建评估学生在解决具有挑战性的数学问题时的进展的规则。 该计划的结构，使教师学习数学和评估策略，除了建立一个基于研究的模型，在线，专业社区。研究人员正在研究如何具体的活动（例如，话语，积极参与，使用规则，反馈和反思）和在线社区支持教师参与真实和生成性评估。研究人员正在使用民族志的方法来了解社区的发展，并进行焦点小组和个人访谈，以确定参与社区对数学教师的影响。 此外，他们还通过话语分析、学生作业分析和题目分析收集数据，以确定产品的最佳设计。在线社区的意向性结构建立在创建专业社区和评估数学学习研究的研究成果之上。 在线专业教学社区为数学教师之间的交流，专业发展和共享工作提供了新的场所。 数学论坛提供了一个最佳的在线环境，用于将受欢迎的本周问题扩展为对问题解决评估的富有成效的讨论，具体规则的构建以及如何鼓励学生思考的相关思考。 这项合作工作将提供评估数学问题解决，在线专业发展的新模式，并建立一个在线数学社区的广泛信息的规则。