Reconstructing Research in Teacher Education to Provide Usable Knowledge and Support Teacher Education Improvement

重建教师教育研究以提供可用知识并支持教师教育改进

• 批准号: 1920616
• 负责人: Heather Hill
• 金额: $ 49.98万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1920616&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Reconstructing; Research; Teacher; Education; Provide

The long-term goal of this project, funded by EHR's Core Research Program, is to guide and support teacher education programs. Significant research work is currently available about how to best train STEM K-12 teachers. As a result, it is an appropriate time to reflect on what educational researchers have already learned and plan for new research designs and methods that can sustain and extend improvements in STEM teacher education. This project will work with STEM teacher educators to study existing research designs and develop new ones to use in STEM teacher education. Using research to improve STEM teacher education is likely to contribute to increased student learning in K-12 classrooms.Working in partnership with a group of STEM teacher educators, this two-year project aims to: 1) Develop strong research designs that can be realistically embedded in teacher education programs; 2) Identify key K-12 STEM classroom practices and design a proof-of-concept instrument to capture performance on one or more of these practices; 3) Publish working papers that provide guidance to teacher educators and others interested in improving research designs and developing new measures; 4) Conduct and report results of a proof-of-concept study that uses one of the newly developed research designs and measures to evaluate preservice teacher learning; and 5) Create a collaboration between teacher education researchers and educational methodologists aimed at increasing the generation and dissemination of new knowledge about effective STEM teacher education practices. This project includes strong collaborations among STEM education researchers and STEM Teacher Preparation programs, which may have long ranging benefits for improving STEM education.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个由EHR核心研究计划资助的项目的长期目标是指导和支持教师教育计划。关于如何最好地培训STEM K-12教师，目前有大量的研究工作可用。因此，现在是反思教育研究人员已经学到的东西并计划新的研究设计和方法以维持和扩大STEM教师教育改进的适当时机。该项目将与STEM教师教育工作者合作，研究现有的研究设计，并开发新的研究设计，用于STEM教师教育。利用研究来改进STEM教师教育可能有助于增加K-12课堂上的学生学习。这个为期两年的项目与一组STEM教师教育工作者合作，旨在：1)开发能够实际嵌入到教师教育计划中的强有力的研究设计；2)确定关键的K-12 STEM课堂实践，并设计一个概念验证工具来捕捉其中一个或多个实践的表现；3)出版工作论文，为教师教育工作者和其他对改进研究设计和开发新措施感兴趣的人提供指导；4)开展并报告一项概念验证研究的结果，该研究使用新开发的研究设计和措施之一来评估职前教师的学习；以及5)在教师教育研究人员和教育方法学家之间建立合作，旨在增加关于有效的STEM教师教育做法的新知识的产生和传播。该项目包括STEM教育研究人员和STEM教师培训计划之间的密切合作，这可能会对改善STEM教育产生长期的好处。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。