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

该项目的资助是为了响应“监测K- 12成功STEM教育进展指标的致同事信”。该项目将重点关注指标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。该项目将开发一个相关信息的门户网站，并通过各州提交的内容来增强有关各州的信息。S评估数学和科学。该门户网站将作为一个指标的基础，使STEM教育的主要利益相关者能够跨州和随时间跟踪和报告这些重要的评估政策。该项目将与一个由调查研究人员和网络开发人员组成的团队合作，以先前资助的试点项目为基础，开发一个门户网站。项目工作人员将预先填充支持门户网站的数据库，其中包含有关各州数学和科学考试及其与各州的一致性的公开信息。年代的标准。他们将用从每个州收集的调查数据来补充这些数据。S评估主任，以及国家数学和科学监督员。门户网站将允许用户考虑对齐信息，并跨州和跨时间进行比较。

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.