Dissemination of Instructional Materials in Science for the PreCollege level: A Report to the Profession

在过去的十年里，材料开发部， 研究和非正式科学教育（DMDRI） 科学基金会（NSF）资助了100多个项目， 在开发材料，以加强正式和非正式 在全国各地的教学和学习领域， 数学、科学和技术。 尽管每个 项目进行了有限的具体项目评价 组件内置于其中，迄今为止， 评估项目的长期影响， 个人或作为一个广泛的教学和学习类 在全国推广 为了找到关于影响的关键问题的答案， DMDRI/NSF赞助的活动，Reynolds和Schaeffer associates公司（R S），建议使用高度互动的& 跨学科团队方法。 R S将开始与& DMDRI/NSF工作人员选择15至18个项目， 目前由DMDRI/NSF资助， 在过去的十年里， 个别项目评价的有限目标。 R S将招募并协调一个团队，& 在该领域的重要专业知识，谁成功地服务于 在过去的项目中，分析数据并提交单独的报告 与R S PI合作的每个项目。& PI将分析和 将15至18个项目的报告综合为 关于DMDRI/NSF活动影响的单一连贯报告 教育领域的正式和非正式教学 数学，科学和技术在全国范围内 江西篇章 这份报告将提交给主任， DMDRI/NSF不迟于项目开始后7个月 约会

During the past decade, the Division of Materials Development, Research, and Informal Science Education (DMDRI) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded more than 100 projects aimed at developing materials to enhance both formal and informal teaching and learning across the nation in the fields of mathematics, science and technology. While each of these projects has had a limited, project-specific evaluation component built into it, heretofore there has been little effort to assess the longer-term impact of the projects either individually or as a class on teaching and learning on a broad scale across the nation. To find the answers to key questions about the impact of DMDRI/NSF-sponsored activities, Reynolds and Schaeffer Associates, Inc. (R&S), proposes to use a highly interactive interdisciplinary team approach. R&S will begin by working with the DMDRI/NSF staff to select between 15 and 18 projects that are presently funded, or have been funded, by DMDRI/NSF within the past decade and have been judged to be successful according to the limited objectives of the individual project evaluations. R&S will recruit and coordinate a team of people with significant expertise in the field who have successfully served in past projects, analyze the data and file individual reports for each project with the R&S PI. The PI will analyze and synthesize the reports on the 15 to 18 individual projects into a single coherent report on the impact of DMDRI/NSF activities on formal and informal teaching and learning in the fields of mathematics, science and technology across the broad national spectrum. This report will be filed with the Director, DMDRI/NSF not later than seven months from the project start date.