Collaborative Research: Transforming Undergraduate Mathematics Teacher Preparation Programs using the Professional Development: Research, Implementation, and Evaluation Framework

该项目旨在通过建立加强中学数学教师培训的做法，服务于高质量STEM教育的国家利益。教师培训计划对于教师业绩的长期改善和留住有效教师至关重要。然而，目前的研究不足以支持关于定义有效教师培养计划的特征的强有力的结论。本项目建议研究如何使用专业发展框架来指导教师准备计划，并改进教师候选人的课堂实践。该项目的专业发展框架将为四个参与机构的中学数学教师培训中的优质教学提供一个共同的参考框架。该项目将通过课程作业、网络改进社区和计划-做-学-做循环来支持职前教师的发展。该项目旨在影响150多名新的中学数学教师，并对数学教师培训计划产生革命性的改进。这一合作项目涉及与马里兰大学巴尔的摩县分校(LEAD)、伯里亚学院、中佛罗里达大学和肯塔基大学的伙伴关系。这个为期四年的项目旨在构建这四所院校的本科数学教师培训计划，并研究如何使用专业发展：研究、实施和评估框架(PRIED)来改进教师培训计划和教师候选人的专业实践。采用以设计为基础的研究，该项目将遵循多组仅纵向治疗、三角测量混合的方法设计。这项研究将参与者定位为自己课堂上的研究人员，调查明确定义的实践问题，并根据他们的发现改进他们的课堂创新。利用网络改进社区在课堂实施和整个小组参与之间循环是PRIMD的一个关键特征，旨在帮助教师候选人在他们的课程工作中将实地经验和理论建立更紧密的联系。该项目旨在探索研究问题，包括：(I)Primed在多大程度上改善了本科教师候选人的项目发展？(Ii)Primed如何改善本科教师候选人为实施研究型教学策略做准备的项目发展？(Iii)Primed将利益相关者(例如，课堂教师、现场经验主管、本科教师候选人、教职员工)重新定位为计划中的合作伙伴、导师和共同学习者的情况如何？本研究的结果可为中学数学教师培训计划的改进和改革提供重要的信息，尤其是跨计划的信度和效度。这一项目的结果预计将为随后关于这种教学做法如何影响中学生成绩的研究提供坚实的基础。NSF改善本科生STEM教育：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型轨道，该计划支持高等教育机构和学科社区转变和改进STEM教育的努力。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。

This project aims to serve the national interest in high quality STEM education by establishing practices to enhance secondary mathematics teacher preparation. Teacher preparation programs are essential for long-term improvement in teacher performance and retention of effective teachers. However, current research is insufficient to support strong conclusions about the characteristics that define effective teacher preparation programs. This project proposes to study the use of a professional development framework to guide teacher preparation programs and improve teacher candidates' classroom practice. The project’s professional development framework will provide a common frame of reference for quality teaching in secondary mathematics teacher preparation across the four participating institutions. The project will support preservice teacher development through coursework, network improvement communities, and plan-do-study-act cycles. The project aims to impact more than 150 new secondary mathematics teachers and produce transformative improvement in mathematics teacher preparation programs. The participation of four institutions will enhance the generalizability of the findings to other institutions.This collaborative project involves partnerships with the University of Maryland Baltimore County (lead), Berea College, the University of Central Florida, and the University of Kentucky. The four-year project aims to structure undergraduate mathematics teacher preparation programs at these four institutions and study the use of the Professional Development: Research, Implementation, and Evaluation framework (PrimeD) to improve teacher preparation programs and teacher candidates' professional practice. Using design-based research, the project will follow a multi-group treatment-only longitudinal, triangulation mixed methods design. The study will position participants as researchers in their own classrooms to investigate well-defined problems of practice and refine their classroom innovations based on their findings. The use of network improvement communities to cycle between classroom implementation and whole group engagement is a key feature of PrimeD intended to help teacher candidates make stronger connections between field experiences and theories learned in their coursework. The project aims to explore research questions including: (i) How well does PrimeD improve program development of undergraduate teacher candidates? (ii) How well does PrimeD improve program development of undergraduate teacher candidates’ preparation to implement research-based teaching strategies? (iii) How well does PrimeD reposition stakeholders (e.g., classroom teachers, field experience supervisors, undergraduate teacher candidates, faculty) as partners, mentors, and co-learners in the program? Results of this research may provide crucial information for enhancing and transforming secondary mathematics teacher preparation programs, especially reliability and validity across programs. Results from this project are anticipated to provide a strong foundation for subsequent studies of how such teaching practices affect secondary student outcomes. The NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.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.