Assessing the Use of Licensure Tests as an Indicator of Teachers? Science and Mathematics Content Knowledge for Teaching

2013年，国家研究理事会发布了一份报告，题为《监测成功的K-12 STEM教育的进展：一个国家在进步？》，该报告概述了14项指标以及创建一个监测全国STEM教育质量的系统所需的研究和开发。该项目的资助是为了响应亲爱的同事信要求在促进测量和评价方案的创新研究，重点是开发研究和工具，以提高国家的能力，以衡量这些指标。本项目的研究人员将处理指标6：教师用于教学的科学和数学内容知识。该项目正在调查教师在华盛顿州教育工作者技能基本和认可测试中的得分在多大程度上预测了学生在数学和科学成绩测试中的得分。这项研究的结果将告知使用执照考试作为教师质量指标的有效性，作为指标6的测量系统的一部分。这项研究的研究人员将使用华盛顿教育工作者技能测试的数据，收集了过去十年的基本测试和过去四年的认可测试。来自中学教师的数据将与学生在中学数学、高中代数、高中几何和高中生物的成绩进行比较。标准增值方法将用于生成执照测试预测有效性的受试者内估计值。本研究的结果，无论是积极的还是消极的，将提供证据的有效性使用教师执照考试的指标体系的一部分，以确定教师的科学和数学内容的知识教学。

The National Research Council in 2013 released the report Monitoring Progress toward Successful K-12 STEM Education: A Nation Advancing?, which outlined 14 Indicators as well as the needed research and development to create a system to monitor the quality of STEM education in the nation. This project is funded in response to a Dear Colleague Letter request for research in the Promoting Innovation in Measurement and Evaluation program focused on developing research and tools to advance the nation's capability to measure these indicators. The researchers in this project will address Indicator 6: Teachers' science and mathematics content knowledge for teaching. The project is investigating the extent to which teachers' scores on the Washington State Educator Skills Basic and Endorsement tests are predictive of students' scores on mathematics and science achievement tests. The findings from this study will inform the validity of the use of licensure tests as one indicator of teacher quality as part of a system of measures for Indicator 6.The researchers in this study will be using data from the Washington Educator Skills Tests, collected over the past ten years for the Basic test and the past four years for the Endorsement tests. Data from secondary school teachers will be compared to student scores in middle school mathematics, high school Algebra, high school Geometry and high school Biology. Standard value-added methodology will be used to generate a within-subject estimate of the predictive validity of the licensure tests. Findings from this study, either positive or negative, will provide evidence of the validity of use of teacher licensing exams as part of an indicator system to determine teacher science and mathematics content knowledge for teaching.