Using Research Practice Partnerships to Take Preliminary Steps towards a Full-fledged Investigation of the Influence of Teacher Leaders on STEM Teacher Effectiveness and Retention

利用研究实践合作伙伴关系，采取初步措施，全面调查教师领导者对 STEM 教师效能和保留率的影响

• 批准号: 2243377
• 负责人: Wendy Smith
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243377&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Using; Research; Practice; Partnerships; Take

This project aims to serve the national need to conduct research regarding STEM teacher effectiveness and retention in high-need school districts. Funds will support the principal investigators as they seek to increase capacity to conduct a research program that focuses on examining STEM teacher leader effectiveness and the leaders’ impacts on STEM teacher effectiveness and retention. Utilizing established research practice partnerships (RPPs) in three different geographic locations, Nebraska, Tennessee, and South Carolina, university researchers will collaborate with high-need urban and rural school districts to identify the metrics and data sources that best align to the local context and goals that the project will use for measuring STEM teacher effectiveness, as well as STEM teacher retention. This Capacity Building project will focus on identifying needed data, deepening partnerships, and coming to agreement as to the evidence-based strategies that will undergird a future research effort consistent with the RPP approach. This project is led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in partnership with Middle Tennessee State University and the University of South Carolina. Researchers at these institutions will be working with schools in Hamilton County Schools (Chattanooga), Crosstown High School (Memphis), Lower Richland High School (Columbia), and four regional Educational Service Units in Nebraska. Project goals include utilizing the RPPs to identify the data sources the project will use to measure the influence of teacher leaders on STEM teacher effectiveness and retention in high-need school districts. This will position the RPP collaborators to develop a full research design to investigate STEM teacher effectiveness and retention in complex systems of high-need urban and rural local education agencies. In addition to leveraging RPPs, the project will use two evidence-based frameworks, the communities of practice framework and improvement science framework. This Capacity Building 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 effectiveness and retention 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求，以进行有关STEM教师有效性和高需求学区保留的研究。资金将支持主要研究人员，因为他们试图提高进行研究计划的能力，该研究计划着重于检查STEM教师领导者的效力以及领导者对STEM教师有效性和保留的影响。大学研究人员利用三个不同的地理位置（内布拉斯加州，田纳西州和南卡罗来纳州）在三个不同地理位置的既定研究实践伙伴关系（RPP），将与高需求的城市和粗糙学区合作，以确定该项目最能与当地背景和目标保持一致的指标和数据来源，该项目将使用该项目来测量STEM教师的效率，并以及Stem Neventive以及Stem steam Netredenty以及Stem steam Netredenty。该能力建设项目将着重于确定所需的数据，加深伙伴关系，并就基于证据的策略达成共识，这些策略将涉及与RPP方法一致的未来研究工作。该项目由内布拉斯加林肯大学与田纳西州立大学和南卡罗来纳大学合作。这些机构的研究人员将与汉密尔顿县学校（Chattanooga），克罗斯敦高中（孟菲斯），下级里奇兰高中（哥伦比亚）和内布拉斯加州的四个区域教育服务部门合作。项目目标包括利用RPP来确定该项目将使用的数据来源来衡量教师领导者对STEM教师有效性和在高需求学区保留的影响。这将使RPP合作者开发完整的研究设计，以调查STEM教师的有效性和在高需求的城市和地方教育机构的复杂系统中的保留。除了利用RPP，该项目还将使用两个基于证据的框架，即实践框架和改进科学框架的社区。罗伯特·诺伊斯（Robert Noyce）教师奖学金计划（NOYCE）支持该能力建设项目。 NOYCE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老师，并经验丰富的K-12老师，成为高需求学区的STEM大师教师。它还支持有关K-12 STEM教师在高需求学区的有效性和保留的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估，被认为是珍贵的支持。