RAPID: A Researcher-Practitioner-Partnership to Assess the Impact of COVID-19 Recession on NGSS Implementation

如今，为71%的美国学生提供服务的44个州的教育标准受到了下一代科学标准（NGSS）的影响。地方实施是NGSS成功的关键，但在2019冠状病毒病期间，我们对K-12学校实施NGSS的程度知之甚少。政策制定者、教育领导者和研究人员迫切需要数据，以了解由于COVID-19造成的变化，他们的学校是否以及如何实施NGSS，以便他们可以设计更好的实施支持，以预期2021年9月学校重新开放面对面学习。该项目将调查在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间加州学校如何实施NGSS。通过全州范围的调查、行政数据分析、访谈和案例研究，该项目将评估COVID-19对大规模实施NGSS的影响，更重要的是，评估高少数民族和高贫困地区受到不成比例影响的程度。它还将确定州和学区可用的政策选择。通过收集关键和及时的数据，该项目将为了解COVID-19对NGSS实施的影响提供新的知识。了解这些知识是制定政策和实践解决方案的必要步骤，这些解决方案将支持学校和教师继续实施NGSS，并在covid -19后为代表性不足的少数民族、英语学习者和残疾学生扩大教育机会。该项目的目标是：(1)评估COVID-19对加州实施NGSS的影响；(2)研究高少数民族、高贫困地区是否以及如何比其他地区受到更严重的影响；(3)确定州和地方地区可以优先考虑的政策和计划，以减轻影响。混合方法方法将用于回答与上述目标相关的研究问题。具体来说，将对加州所有学区进行调查。学区行政数据的文本挖掘也将进行。定性方法包括访谈和案例研究。全年还将开展广泛的外联工作，包括与立法和行政部门的成员进行一对一的简报。通过与加利福尼亚州教育部门合作，为实施NGSS分配资源，并与当地学区合作，制定指导方针，支持教师进行与NGSS一致的教学，将形成研究人员与从业者的伙伴关系。项目成果将通过在线资源和数字图书馆广泛传播给学区、科学教师和课程开发人员。项目结果将为国家决策提供信息，并加强研究机构与州政府之间的伙伴关系。该RAPID奖是由学习研究部的发现研究preK-12 （DRK-12）项目颁发的。DRK-12项目旨在通过研究和开发创新资源、模型和工具，显著提高pre -12学生和教师对科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究和先前的研究和开发工作的基础上，为拟议的项目提供了理论和实证依据。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Today 44 states serving 71 percent of U.S. students have education standards influenced by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Local implementation is the key to the success of NGSS, yet little is known about the extent to which NGSS have been implemented in K-12 schools during COVID-19. Policymakers, educational leaders, and researchers urgently need data to know whether and how NGSS implementation is taking hold in their schools in light of changes due to COVID-19 so that they may design better supports for implementation in anticipation for school reopening for in-person learning in September 2021. This project will investigate how NGSS has been implemented in California schools during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Through a state-wide survey, analysis of administrative data, interviews and case studies, this project will assess the impact of COVID-19 on NGSS implementation on a large scale, and more importantly, the extent to which high minority, high-poverty districts are disproportionately affected. It will also identify policy options available to state and school districts. By collecting critical and timely data, this project will contribute new knowledge to understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on NGSS implementation. This knowledge is a necessary step towards policy and practice solutions that support schools and teachers in continuing implementation of NGSS and expanding educational opportunities to underrepresented minorities, English learners, and students with disabilities in post-COVID-19. The goals of the project are to (1) assess the impacts of COVID-19 on NGSS implementation in California; (2) examine whether and how high-minority, high-poverty districts are impacted more acutely than other districts; and (3) identify policies and programs state and local districts could prioritize to mitigate the impacts. A mixed methods approach will be used to answer research questions related to the above goals. Specifically, a survey of all school districts in California will be conducted. Text mining of school district administrative data will also be performed. Qualitative methods will include interviews and case studies. Extensive outreach efforts, including one-on-one briefings with the members of the legislative and executive branches, will also take place throughout the year. A researcher-practitioner partnership will be formed through engaging the California State Department of Education in allocating resources for NGSS implementation and local school districts in developing guidelines to support teachers in NGSS-aligned instruction. Project findings will be widely disseminated through online resources and digital libraries to school districts, science teachers, and curriculum developers. Project findings will inform state policymaking and increase the partnerships between research institutions and state government. This RAPID award is made by the Discovery Research preK-12 (DRK-12) program in the Division of Research on Learning. The DRK-12 program 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.