Technical Evaluation Assistance in Mathematics and Science (TEAMS)

这项授予RMC研究公司的研究、评估和技术援助项目支持了数学和科学伙伴关系（MSP）项目中评估社区的需求，提高了MSP奖项的评估质量，并在评估设计、方法、分析和报告方面建立了社区能力。该项目进行持续的需求评估，以确定高质量评估的障碍，提供更多的工具来衡量各种重要的STEM教育成果，并促进MSP评估人员和研究人员之间的持续联系，以改进评估。评估设计和实施技术援助包括直接帮助确定项目如何最好地利用严格的实验和强大的准实验设计，调查人员和评估人员如何最好地与学校和地区互动，以确保他们的合作，以及如何最好地将评估结果传达给各种受众。技术援助将涉及新的评估方法，包括使用大规模、纵向的学生成绩数据库、社会网络设计来检查合作和能力建设，以及来自国家科学基金会项目的其他方法，如促进评估方法的研究和创新（PRIME）。多层次的技术援助计划为项目提供不同层次的帮助。一个面向普通STEM教育公众的网站，提供与MSP评估的广泛主题相关的信息。在线帮助台为NSF MSP项目提供更详细的帮助。通过与MSP项目的互动，对评估计划、报告和事件服务的持续分析提供了其他项目识别和解决可靠评估障碍的方法示例。存档的一系列网络研讨会可随时查看，解决了项目中出现的常见评估问题。资助项目的评估是一个重要的问题，远远超出了NSF和Title IIB（美国教育部）MSP资助项目的目标人群。越来越多的STEM教育研究和开发项目被要求证明其努力的影响或有效性。确保所提供的有关这些影响的信息分布在各种报告、期刊文章和出版物中所需的工具和设计。该项目与正在进行的MSP学习网络相结合，扩大了对从事STEM教育专业发展和研究的STEM教育工作者的支持。

This Research, Evaluation and Technical Assistance project awarded to RMC Research Corporation supports the needs of the evaluation community in the Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program, improving the quality of the evaluations of the MSP awards and building community capacity in evaluation design, methodology, analysis and reporting. This project conducts on-going needs assessments to ascertain barriers to high quality evaluations, provides increased access to instruments to measure a wide variety of important STEM education outcomes, and facilitates ongoing networking among MSP evaluators and investigators to improve evaluation. Evaluation design and implementation technical assistance includes direct help in determining how projects can best utilize rigorous experimental and strong quasi-experimental designs, how investigators and evaluators can best interact with schools and districts in order to ensure their cooperation, and how the findings of evaluations can best be communicated to a variety of audiences. The technical assistance will address new methodology in evaluation that includes the use of large scale, longitudinal databases of student outcomes, social network designs to examine collaboration and capacity building, and other methodologies coming from NSF programs such as Promoting Research and Innovation in Methodologies in Evaluation (PRIME). A multi-tiered technical assistance program provides different levels of help to projects. A website, available to the general STEM education public, provides information relevant to a wide range of topics for MSP evaluation. An online Help Desk provides more detailed assistance for NSF MSP projects. An on-going analysis of evaluation plans, reports and event services that are provided through interactions with MSP projects provides examples of ways that other projects have identified and addressed barriers to robust evaluation. A series of webinars that are archived for anytime viewing address common evaluation issues that have arisen in projects. Evaluation of funded projects is an important issue that goes well beyond the target population of the NSF and Title IIB (of the U.S. Department of Education) MSP funded projects. Increasingly, research and development projects in STEM education are being required to show evidence of impact or effectiveness of their efforts. The tools and designs that are needed to ensure that the information that is provided about those impacts is distributed across a variety of reports, journal articles and publications. This project, integrated with the ongoing MSP Learning Network, expands the support that is available for STEM educators who engage in professional development and research in STEM education.