Playing with the data: Developing digital supports for middle school science teachers using game-based formative assessment

探索研究K-12计划（DRK-12）旨在通过研究和开发创新资源，模型和工具（RMT），显着提高学前班学生和教师的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的学习和教学。DRK-12项目中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究和先前的研究和开发工作的基础上，这些研究和开发工作为拟议的项目提供了理论和经验依据。该项目将使用基于设计的研究周期来构建关于如何促进教师解释和使用基于数字游戏的形成性评估数据的新知识。这项研究还将为Playfully的修订和扩展提供信息，Playfully是一个现有的在线数据报告仪表板，可用于多种数字游戏。 该项目是教育发展中心公司的研究人员之间的合作。儿童与科技中心（EDC| CCT）和GlassLab的评估和游戏开发团队。研发团队将与60名在全国不同地区不同学校环境中工作的中学科学教师建立为期三年的伙伴关系。该项目的目的是完善一个在线形成性评估平台，该平台利用旨在教授中学辩论的视频游戏数据。它提供了严格的研究数据工具和相关材料的设计特点，可供教师告知他们正在进行的教学（即，该项目的成果将包括实用的、基于证据的建议，以支持中学科学教师使用数字游戏进行评估，并设计和实施数据仪表板。主要受众包括教育游戏设计师，基于游戏的评估开发人员，形成性评估专家以及中年级科学教学和学习的领导者。

The Discovery Research K-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools (RMTs). Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects.This project will use cycles of design-based research to build new knowledge about how to facilitate teachers' interpretation and use of digital game-based formative assessment data. The research will also inform the revision and expansion of Playfully, an existing, online data-reporting dashboard that can be used with multiple digital games. The project is a collaboration between researchers at Education Development Center Inc.'s Center for Children and Technology (EDC|CCT) and the assessment and game development teams at GlassLab. The research and development teams will engage in a three-year partnership with 60 middle-grade science teachers working in diverse school settings in different parts of the country. The aim of the project is to refine an online formative assessment platform that utilizes data from a video game designed to teach argumentation at the middle school level. It provides rigorous research on the design features of data tools and associated materials available to teachers to inform their ongoing instruction (i.e., formative assessment tools) when using game-based platforms.Dissemination of the results of this project will include practical, evidence-based suggestions for supporting middle school science teachers' use of digital games for assessment, and for the design and implementation of data dashboards. Key audiences include educational game designers, game-based assessment developers, formative assessment experts, and leaders in middle grade science teaching and learning.