Teaching and Testing to Promote Higher Order Thinking in Science and Mathematics Education

在科学和数学教育方面，领导人一致认为， 教学需要更多地关注理解，而不是 覆盖 然而，很少有证据表明，教师或 测试人员做了很多直接的工作来促进这种更高的秩序 思维 为了解决这个问题，我们将采取高... 利害关系测试制造商开发更高阶的结果测量 帮助一群科学和数学教师 在编制评估战略时， 在课堂上促进更高层次的思维;研究 这些策略对学生表现的影响， 制定了成果衡量标准和相关的高风险衡量标准; 并制订教师在职评核计划， 说明并解释课堂评估样本 促进更高层次思维的策略。 的一年 供资使上述第一和第二步得以完成。 如果考试者发现高阶思维 在课堂上推广，他们将强调这种思想， 他们的高风险测试开发

In science and mathematics education, leaders agree that instruction needs to focus more on understanding than coverage. There is little evidence however that teachers or test makers do much directly to promote such higher order thinking. To overcome this problem we will work with a high- stakes test maker to develop outcome measures of higher order thinking; assist a group of science and mathematics teachers in preparing assessment strategies which can be used to promote higher order thinking in their classrooms; study the effects of those strategies on student performance using the developed outcome measures and a related high stakes measure; and develop a teacher assessment inservice package which illustrates and explains sample classroom assessment strategies that promote higher order thinking. The one year funding allows completion of steps one and two above. If test makers see that higher order thinking is being promoted in the classroom they will emphasize such thinking in their high-stakes test development.