Understanding the Career Trajectories, Effectiveness, and Retention of Noyce Scholars in High-Need Schools in Oregon

了解俄勒冈州高需求学校诺伊斯学者的职业轨迹、有效性和保留率

• 批准号: 2150955
• 负责人: Kevin Carr
• 金额: $ 99.94万
• 依托单位: Pacific University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-06-01 至 2027-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150955&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Understanding; Career; Trajectories; Effectiveness; Retention

The project aims to serve the national need to provide every child with high-quality STEM teachers. To meet this need, schools must retain effective STEM teachers for long-term service. This project will conduct surveys and interviews with STEM teachers who participated in Noyce programs in Oregon. These research activities will produce evidence and insights about STEM teacher experiences that support effectiveness and persistence in high-need schools. The project will also engage a subset of effective, persistent STEM teachers to write about their teaching careers. The project will disseminate the key experiences of effective STEM teachers who have demonstrated effectiveness and persisted in high-need schools. These findings could provide insights to guide teacher education programs broadly.This project at Pacific University includes partnerships with the University of Oregon, the University of Portland, and the regional nonprofit research organization Education Northwest. The goal of the research is to understand the reasons behind the observed retention and cultural effectiveness of Noyce-prepared STEM teachers in high-need schools in Oregon. The project will first engage 100 STEM teachers in a 30-minute Career Overview Survey. The project will then engage 40 selected STEM teachers in a 90-minute Career Trajectory Interview. Data collection methods will include measures of cultural effectiveness coupled with in-depth teacher interviews to identify teachers who both demonstrate cultural effectiveness and have been retained in high-need schools. Finally, the project will engage 18 selected STEM teachers in a year-long Narrative Inquiry professional development program, in which each will create their own STEM Teacher Autoethnography, reflecting in depth on their career trajectory as an effective STEM teacher in high-need schools. Project activities will be evaluated by an advisory board of external stakeholders, including both Oregon Noyce program stakeholders and teacher education experts from out of the state. Project findings will be disseminated through conference presentations and academic publications, as well as through publication of a collection of STEM teacher narratives. Further, project findings may inform STEM teacher preparation programs nationally in efforts to recruit, prepare, and support teacher candidates likely to succeed and persist in high-need schools. This Track 4: Noyce Research project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce). The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers and experienced, exemplary K-12 teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the retention and effectiveness of K-12 STEM teachers in high-need school districts.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.

该项目旨在满足国家的需要，为每个孩子提供高质量的STEM教师。为了满足这一需求，学校必须保留有效的STEM教师长期服务。该项目将对参加俄勒冈州诺伊斯项目的STEM教师进行调查和采访。这些研究活动将产生有关STEM教师经验的证据和见解，以支持高需求学校的有效性和持久性。该项目还将聘请一部分有效的、坚持不懈的STEM教师来撰写他们的教学生涯。该项目将传播有效的STEM教师的关键经验，这些教师在高需求的学校表现出有效性并坚持下去。这些发现可以为广泛指导教师教育项目提供见解。太平洋大学的这个项目包括与俄勒冈州大学、波特兰大学和地区非营利研究组织“教育西北”的合作。这项研究的目标是了解背后的原因观察到的保留和文化效力的诺伊斯准备干教师在高需求的学校在俄勒冈州。该项目将首先让100名STEM教师参加30分钟的职业概述调查。然后，该项目将邀请40名选定的STEM教师参加90分钟的职业轨迹面试。数据收集方法将包括文化有效性的措施，再加上深入的教师访谈，以确定教师谁既表现出文化有效性，并已被保留在高需求的学校。最后，该项目将邀请18名选定的STEM教师参加为期一年的叙事探究专业发展计划，每个人都将创建自己的STEM教师自我民族志，深入反映他们作为高需求学校的有效STEM教师的职业轨迹。项目活动将由外部利益相关者组成的咨询委员会进行评估，包括俄勒冈州诺伊斯项目利益相关者和来自该州的教师教育专家。项目结果将通过会议报告和学术出版物以及通过出版STEM教师叙述集进行传播。此外，项目调查结果可能会告知全国STEM教师准备计划，以努力招聘，准备和支持可能在高需求学校成功并坚持的教师候选人。这个轨道4：诺伊斯研究项目是通过罗伯特诺伊斯教师奖学金计划（诺伊斯）的支持。诺伊斯计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为有效的K-12 STEM教师和经验丰富的模范K-12教师，成为高需求学区的STEM硕士教师。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。