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

2013年，国家研究委员会发布了一份报告《监控K-12 STEM教育成功的进展：一个进步的国家？》，其中概述了14项指标以及创建一个监测国家STEM教育质量的系统所需的研发。本项目是应亲爱的同事来信的要求而资助的，该信要求对促进测量和评估创新计划进行研究，该计划专注于开发研究和工具，以提高国家衡量这些指标的能力。该项目的研究人员将处理指标6：教师的教学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者基本技能和代言测试中的分数在多大程度上可以预测学生在数学和科学方面的成绩。这项研究的结果将为使用执照考试作为教师质量指标的有效性提供信息，作为指标6测量系统的一部分。本研究的研究人员将使用华盛顿教师技能考试的数据，这些数据在过去十年中用于基础测试，过去四年用于背书测试。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。将使用标准的增值方法来生成对执照考试预测有效性的受试者内部估计。这项研究的结果，无论是积极的还是消极的，都将提供证据，证明教师资格考试作为确定教师科学和数学教学知识的指标系统的一部分是有效的。

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.