Measuring Classroom Coverage of Content and Practices in the New Generation of Mathematics and Science Standards

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。 该项目是应促进计量和评价创新方案的研究请求而资助的，该方案的重点是开发研究和工具，以提高国家计量这些指标的能力。该项目将探讨社会、行为和教育科学的现有措施，以及制定指标5新措施的机会，指标5是报告中列出的最优先指标之一：学生在科学，技术，工程，数学（STEM）可以大规模采用的课程，以收集有关数学和科学内容的课堂覆盖率以及标准实践的证据，大学和职业准备。该项目将通过在研究人员和从业人员之间就如何改进对学生接触数学和科学内容和实践的衡量达成共识，并提供具体行动步骤，为制定高质量、可用的指标提供信息，从而促进对STEM研究和教育的认识。在第一阶段，项目小组将审查现有的学生课堂体验措施和创新的数据收集方法。所使用的研究方法包括文献综述和与开发人员和主题专家的访谈。第一阶段的主要成果是一份研究报告草案和相关的简报，内容涉及文献审查的结果，以及拟议的未来计划和行动步骤，以衡量大规模数学和科学中与大学和职业准备标准一致的教学。在第二阶段，研究团队将与专家和政策制定者举行为期一天半的会议，收集对第一阶段活动成果的反馈，并探讨如何调整现有措施或制定新措施，以评估学生接触STEM内容和实践的情况，以用于大规模指标系统。 一个项目网站将概述项目活动，并作为所有项目文件的存放处，供免费下载。

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 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 project will explore existing measures from the social, behavioral, and educational sciences as well as opportunities for developing new measures of Indicator 5, one of the highest priority indicators listed in the report: student experience in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) classes that can be adopted on a large scale to collect evidence about classroom coverage of mathematics and science content and practices in standards for college and career readiness. This project will contribute to advancing knowledge about STEM research and education through building consensus among researchers and practitioners about how to improve the measurement of students' exposure to mathematics and science content and practices and providing concrete action steps to inform the development of high-quality, usable indicators.Research activities will be carried out in two stages. During Stage I, the project team will conduct a review of existing measures of student experience in classrooms and innovative data collection methods. Research methods used include literature review and interviews with developers and subject-matter experts. Key deliverables from Stage I are a draft research report and associated briefings about findings from the reviews of literatures and proposed future plan and action steps to measure instruction aligned with the college and career ready standards in mathematics and science on a large scale. During Stage II, the research team will hold a one and one-half day conference with experts and policymakers to collect feedback on deliverables from Stage I activities and to address ways to adapt existing measures or develop new measures to assess students' exposure to STEM content and practices for use in a large-scale indicator system. A project website will summarize project activities and serve as a repository for all project documents, which will be made available for downloading free of charge.