Experimental Design to Measure Effects of Assisting Teachers in Using Data on Enacted Curriculum to Improve Effectiveness of Instruction in Mathematics and Science Education

本项目将测试干预的效果，以帮助中学教师学会使用丰富、深入的数据来改善他们的教学。有关他们目前的教学、课程实践和学生评估的信息将被收集、总结，并在培训活动中交给教师。将采用两种形式的干预：一种是基于“持续改进”，向教师提供数据和形成性评估。另一种干预是“基于学校的协作和网络”，旨在分享教学理念、模式和改进策略。该项目将采用实验设计，从同一地区的一些学校中随机选择治疗和控制学校。课程和教学的改进将通过多种措施进行评估，包括教师调查、观察、访谈以及对教师作业、学生作业和学生考试结果的分析。然而，干预措施效果的真正考验要到第四个没有资金的年份才会出现。该项目将依靠学校收集的评估。

This project will test the effects of an intervention to assist middle school teachers to learn to use rich, in-depth data to improve their teaching. Information about their current instruction, curriculum practices, and student assessment will be gathered, summarized, and given to teachers in a training exercise. Two forms of the intervention will be used: one is based on "continuous improvement" in which data and formative evaluation are provided to teachers. The other intervention is "school-based collaboration and networking" aimed at sharing teaching ideas, models, and strategies for improvement. The project will apply an experimental design with treatment and control schools randomly selected from a pool of schools from the same districts. Improvements in curriculum and teaching will be assessed with multiple measures, including teacher surveys, observation, interviews, and analysis of teacher assignments, student work, and student test results. However, the true test of the effect of the interventions cannot occur until a 4th unfunded year. The project will rely on school collected assessments.