Symposium on "The Policy Implications of International Studies in Mathematics Education"

国家研究理事会是该研究所的主要运营机构， 国家科学院和国家工程院， 成立了一个36人的数学科学教育委员会， （MSEB）。其主要目的是提供一个持续的国家 各级数学科学教育的评估能力。 董事会将通过以下方式提供领导、服务和协调 各种活动和工作产品，重点是影响 数学科学的教学质量。 前两次国家科学基金会赠款的目的是 为两个目标国家的活动提供初步和补充支助， 问题领域，“学校数学的框架和替代模型 “课程”与“考试对数学教育影响的研究 K-14“在过去五个月中， 这些活动领域的每一个，现在是适当的MSEB 在原计划中采取其他措施。 这笔赠款将为MSEB开始活动提供支持， 另一个重要领域的国家问题和问题所造成的 数学科学教育的国际比较近几 多年来，已经进行了几项这样的研究。据报道， 如果没有充分的机会来考虑对联邦的影响， 国家和地方政策。通过这一特殊的国家行为， 研讨会的MSEB将刺激和协调的主要努力： --解释各种重要结果 国际调查; - 制定政策影响和具体 改进美国学校数学教育的建议; 和 --通过以下方式促进这些思想的有效传播 为专题讨论会和专题讨论会之后制作的特别材料。 国家科学院通过MSEB提供 吸引重要研究人员所需的背景和声望， 教育工作者、政府官员和关心此事的公民 重要活动，并确保教育界在全国范围内注意 政策制定者。

The National Research Council, the principal operating agent of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, has established a 36-member Board on Mathematical Sciences Education (MSEB). Its primary purpose is to provide a continuing national assessment capability for mathematical sciences education at all levels. The Board will provide leadership, service, and coordination through a variety of activities and work products focussed on issues affecting the quality of instruction in the mathematical sciences. The purpose of two previous National Science Foundation grants was to provide initial and supplemented support for activities in two targetted problem areas, "Framework and Alternative Models for School Mathematics Curricula" and "Study of the Impact of Testing on Mathematics Education K-14." Considerable progress has occurred during the past five months in each of these areas of activity, and it is now appropriate for the MSEB to undertake other initiatives in its original plan. This grant will provide support for the MSEB to begin activities in another important domain of national issues and problems resulting from international comparisons of mathematical sciences education. In recent years several such studies have been conducted. These have been reported without ample opportunity for deliberation of implications for federal, state, and local policies. Through the conduct of this special national symposium the MSEB will stimulate and coordinate a major effort to: --interpret significant results from various international investigations; --develop policy implications and specific recommendations for improving mathematics education in American schools; and --foster effective dissemination of these ideas through special materials produced for, and subsequent to, the symposium. The National Academy of Sciences, acting through the MSEB, provides the context and prestige necessary to attract significant researchers, educators, governmental officials, and concerned citizens to this important activity and to assure a nationwide attention by educational policy makers.