Transferring New Assessment Technologies

该项目的目标是将新的评估技术从研究人员转移到教育从业者。这将使课程开发团队能够在课堂内调整课程和评估，并为教师提供有效使用课程中嵌入的新评估所需的知识和技能。为实现这一目标，该项目将编写实践培训材料，以提高教师和其他教育工作者使用新形式的学生评估（如作品集和实践调查）的能力，并使一些人能够构建这种评估方式，这些评估方式与科学和数学教育的课程改革相一致。为此目的，将开发原型动手培训材料并进行实地测试。在开发原型材料之前，该项目将创建新的评估，以研究生产评估所涉及的步骤，然后与教师和其他教育工作者合作，找出如何最好地将新的测试开发技术从研究人员转移到参与课堂和学校测试开发的人员。最终的产品将是两个实践培训包，一个是为职前和在职教师提供使用新评估的知识和技能，另一个是在第一个的基础上，为教师、科学教育研究生、主管、以及其他教育工作者创造和评估新评估的知识和技能。费用分摊将至少为国家科学基金部分的13%。

The goal of this project is to transfer new assessment technologies from researchers to education practitioners. This would enable curriculum development teams to align curriculum and assessment within the classroom, and provide teachers the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use new assessments embedded within the curriculum. To accomplish this, the project will produce hands-on training materials for enhancing teachers' and other educators' capabilities to use, and for some to construct, new forms of student assessments--such as portfolios and hands-on investigations--that are aligned with curricular reform in science and mathematics education. To this end, prototype hands-on training materials will be developed and field tested. Prior to developing the prototype materials, the project will create new assessments, in order to study the steps involved in producing the assessments, and then work with teachers and other educators to find out how best to transfer new test-development technologies from research staff to those involved in classroom and school test development. The final product will be two hands-on training packages, one for providing preservice and inservice teachers with the knowledge and skills to use new assessments and another, building on the first, to provide teachers, graduate students in science education, supervisors, and other educators the knowledge and skills to create and evaluate new assessments. The cost sharing will be a minimum of 13% of the NSF portion.