STEM Indicators: Implementing a Model for Reporting and Research on State Assessment Policies for K-12 Science and Mathematics Education

该项目是为了响应“亲爱的同事信指标”，以监测成功的K- 12 STEM教育的进展。该项目将侧重于指标12：国家？使用评估来衡量科学和数学学科的核心概念和实践。该项目将开发一个门户网站的相关信息，增加了国家提交，关于每个国家？在数学和科学的评估。该门户网站将作为指标的基础，使STEM教育的主要利益相关者能够跨州并随着时间的推移跟踪和报告这些重要的评估政策。该项目将与一个调查研究人员和网络开发人员小组合作，在以前资助的试点项目的基础上，开发一个门户网站。项目工作人员将预先填充数据库，支持门户网站与公开提供的信息，国家数学和科学考试及其对齐的国家？的标准。他们将用从每个州收集的调查数据来补充这些数据？的评估主任，以及国家数学和科学监督员。该门户网站将允许用户考虑校准信息，并在不同州和不同时间进行比较。

The project is funded in response to the Dear Colleague Letter Indicators for Monitoring Progress Toward Successful K- 12 STEM Education. The project will focus on Indicator 12: States? use of assessments that measure the core concepts and practices of science and mathematics disciplines. The project will develop a web portal of relevant information, augmented by state submissions, about each state?s assessments in mathematics and science. This portal would serve as a basis for an indicator that would allow key stakeholders in STEM education to both track and report, across states and over time, these important assessment policies. The project will work with a team of survey researchers and web developers, building upon a previously funded pilot project, to develop a web portal. The project staff will pre-populate the database supporting the web portal with publicly available information about state mathematics and science tests and their alignment to the state?s standards. They will supplement these data with survey data collected from each state?s assessment director, as well as state mathematics and science supervisors. The web portal will allow users to consider alignment information and make comparisons across states and over time.