Collaborative Research: Collaborative Evaluation Communities in Urban Schools- CEC

城市学校协作评价社区项目将建立以学校为基础的协作评价社区，以实现以下目标： 1. 提高城市学校评价能力。2. 培养研究生水平的教育领导者的知识和技能，以评估科学和数学课程。3. 通过提高科学和数学教师使用评估数据的能力，并进行持续改进和基于数据的决策，为他们提供专业成长。由CEC项目创建的协作评价社区将作为科学和数学教师的专业成长活动，并作为培训基地，帮助研究生发展评价技能。 通过让学校参与评估，该小组将协助教师和研究生收集和分析数据，检查学生评估结果，评估学校课程，以及分析科学和数学教学实践。 CEC项目将协助伙伴地区创造一种评估文化，旨在支持对方案的持续评估，最终目的是改善所有学生的教育机会。智力优势：CEC项目将在三年赠款期内创建总共八个协作评估社区;堪萨斯城堪萨斯学区的四个协作评估社区和圣保罗学区的四个协作评估社区。合作评估社区将由一名教师和学校的一名主要科学或数学教师共同领导。该学院还将帮助监督每个社区的研究生，他们将帮助领导和发展协作评估社区。 首席教师将担任大学和其他任课教师之间的联络人，这些任课教师与首席教师在同一所学校。 有各种方式，合作评价社区可以互动，预计这一项目将激发新的方式为学校和大学合作的评价活动。利用协作评价团体来建设城市学校的评价能力是评价领域的一项独特而重要的活动。 学校需要能够使用评估和评估数据来做出科学和数学教育决策的教师。 CEC项目将促进对如何帮助学校参与评估的认识和理解。研究人员非常有资格设计和实施CEC项目。 他们在科学和数学项目评估领域拥有丰富的经验，并将能够利用这些经验来培养研究生，并帮助学校进行评估。 此外，CEC项目将由科学和数学项目评估领域的专家进行外部评估。 更广泛的影响：CEC项目的活动将促进对城市学校教师使用协作评价社区的发现和理解。 此外，CEC项目将促进研究生的教学、培训和学习。 该项目将通过提高为多样化学生群体服务的城市学校教师的评价能力，扩大代表性不足群体的参与。 CEC项目的研究人员也有能力招募不同背景的研究生。 将向教育和评价界广泛传播教育和评价项目的成果。 该项目具有很大的潜力，通过发展城市学校的评价能力，并通过发展研究生的评价能力，可以继续服务社会，造福社会。 总而言之，CEC项目将在城市学校建立持久的合作评价社区，以发展学校参与评价的能力，并帮助所有学生在科学和数学方面取得成就。

The Collaborative Evaluation Communities in Urban Schools (CEC) project will create school-based collaborative evaluation communities to achieve the following goals: 1. Improve the evaluation capacity of urban schools. 2. Develop graduate level educational leaders with the knowledge and skills to evaluate science and mathematics programs. 3. Provide teachers of science and mathematics professional growth by improving their capacity to use evaluation data and engage in continuous improvement and data based decision-making. The collaborative evaluation communities created by the CEC project will serve as professional growth activities for science and mathematics teachers, and as training grounds to help graduate students develop evaluation skills. By engaging schools in evaluation the team will assist teachers and graduate students in the collection and analysis of data, the examination of student assessment results, the evaluation of school programs, and the analysis of science and mathematics instructional practices. The CEC project will assist partner districts in the creation of an evaluation culture designed to support the continual evaluation of programs with the ultimate intent of improving the educational opportunities for all students. Intellectual Merit:The CEC project will create a total of eight collaborative evaluation communities over the three-year grant period; four collaborative evaluation communities in the Kansas City, Kansas School District and four in the St. Paul School District. The collaborative evaluation communities will be co-led by a faculty member and a lead science or mathematics teacher in the schools. The faculty will also help supervise graduate students in each community who will help lead and develop the collaborative evaluation community. The lead teacher will serve as the liaison between the university and other classroom teachers who are in the same school as the lead teacher. There are various ways that the collaborative evaluation communities can interact, and it is expected that this project will inspire new ways for the schools and universities to collaborate on evaluation activities. The use of collaborative evaluation communities to build evaluation capacity in urban schools is a unique and important activity for the field of evaluation. The schools are in need of teachers who can use evaluation and assessment data to make decisions regarding science and mathematics education. The CEC project will advance knowledge and understanding of how to help schools engage in evaluation. The investigators are very well qualified to design and implement the CEC project. They have extensive experience in the field of science and mathematics program evaluation, and will be able to use this experience to develop graduate students and help schools engage in evaluation. In addition, the CEC project will be externally evaluated by an expert in the field of science and mathematics program evaluation. Broader Impact:The activities of the CEC project will advance discovery and understanding regarding the use of collaborative evaluation communities for teachers in urban schools. In addition, the CEC project will promote teaching, training, and learning for graduate students. The CEC project will broaden the participation of underrepresented groups by enhancing the evaluation capacity of teachers in urban schools who serve a diverse student population. The investigators on the CEC project also have the ability to recruit graduate students of diverse backgrounds. The results of the CEC project will be widely disseminated to the education and evaluation community. The project has great potential to benefit society by developing the evaluation capacity of urban schools, and by developing the evaluation abilities of graduate students who can go on to serve society. All in all, the CEC project will create lasting collaborative evaluation communities in urban schools in order to develop schools' capacity to engage in evaluation and to help all students achieve in science and mathematics.