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Professional Development to Support an Elementary School Science and Integrated Language Curriculum

支持小学科学和综合语言课程的专业发展

基本信息

批准号：
2035103
负责人：
Okhee Lee
金额：
$ 299.99万
依托单位：
New York University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2035103&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Professional Development Support Elementary Science

项目摘要

The nation's diverse and rapidly changing student demographics includes the rise of English learners, the fastest growing student population. Such demographic shifts highlight the importance of promoting and fostering science classrooms that support language learning for all students, including English learners. To help address this need, this project will rigorously study the Science and Integrated Language (SAIL) curriculum, a yearlong fifth-grade curriculum aligned to current science curriculum standards with a focus on English learners. SAIL is grounded in design principles that are based on current research on children’s science learning and second language acquisition. The curriculum includes four units that focus on central, driving questions (e.g., What happens to our garbage? or Why do falling stars fall?) to anchor the key physical and life science concepts of interest. The SAIL curriculum was originally developed with a prior DRK-12 grant using iterative cycles of development, field testing, and refinement. The project has three main objectives. First, the team will develop a teacher professional development program to support classroom implementation of SAIL. Second, the project will develop and validate the instruments needed to study the intervention and its impacts on teachers and students. Third, a quasi-experimental field trial will be conducted to assess the SAIL intervention’s impacts on teachers and students. The team will spend first year refining and iteratively developing the SAIL professional development package along with the measures to be used in the field trial. This is followed by the quasi-experimental study, which includes a treatment group of 15 elementary schools. A matched comparison group of 15 elementary schools will be obtained using propensity score matching at the school, teacher, and student levels. Fifth-grade science teachers will participate for 2 years, while two cohorts of fifth-grade students will participate for 1 year each. Measures will focus on student science learning with particular attention to English learner students and observations of teachers’ instructional practices. Data will be analyzed using multi-level models accounting for nesting of students within teachers which, in turn, are nested within schools. At the completion of the project the team will have produced: (1) a fully documented professional development program to support teacher implementation of the SAIL curriculum, (2) measures needed to rigorously study the intervention and its impacts on teachers and students, and (3) further evidence of the potential effects of the SAIL intervention on teachers and students through a rigorous quasi-experimental field study.The Discovery Research preK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects.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.

这个国家多样化和快速变化的学生人口结构包括英语学习者的崛起，这是增长最快的学生人口。这种人口结构的变化突出了促进和培养支持所有学生（包括英语学习者）语言学习的科学教室的重要性。为了帮助满足这一需求，该项目将严格研究科学与综合语言（SAIL）课程，这是一门为期一年的五年级课程，符合当前的科学课程标准，重点关注英语学习者。SAIL的设计原则基于当前对儿童科学学习和第二语言习得的研究。该课程包括四个单元，重点是中心，驱动问题（例如，我们的垃圾怎么办？为什么流星会坠落？（Why do falling stars fall？锚感兴趣的关键物理和生命科学概念。SAIL课程最初是通过先前的DRK-12赠款开发的，使用开发，现场测试和改进的迭代周期。该项目有三个主要目标。首先，该小组将制定一个教师专业发展计划，以支持SAIL的课堂实施。第二，该项目将开发和验证研究干预措施及其对教师和学生的影响所需的工具。第三，将进行准实验性的实地试验，以评估SAIL干预对教师和学生的影响。该团队将在第一年完善和迭代开发SAIL专业开发包沿着将在现场试验中使用的措施。其次是准实验研究，其中包括一个治疗组的15所小学。一个匹配的比较组的15所小学将获得使用倾向得分匹配在学校，教师和学生的水平。五年级的科学教师将参加2年，而两批五年级的学生将参加1年。措施将侧重于学生的科学学习，特别注意英语学习者的学生和教师的教学实践的观察。数据将使用多层次模型进行分析，考虑到学生在教师中的嵌套，而教师又嵌套在学校中。在项目完成时，该小组将制作：（1）一个完整的专业发展计划，以支持教师实施SAIL课程，（2）严格研究干预措施及其对教师和学生的影响所需的措施，和（3）通过严格的准实验，进一步证明SAIL干预对教师和学生的潜在影响，探索研究preK-12计划（DRK-12）旨在通过研究和开发创新资源，模型和工具，显着提高preK-12学生和教师的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的学习和教学。DRK-12项目中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究以及为拟议项目提供理论和经验依据的先前研究和开发工作的基础上。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。