Exploratory Research to Develop Methods for Studying Adult Development in Math Teacher Professional Development

这项为期16个月的项目旨在探索如何使用凯根的成人发展理论来解释教师在同一数学专业发展中经历的重要差异。目前衡量这种发展差异的唯一方法--主客体访谈--管理起来既昂贵又费力。该项目将开发一种书面工具和方法，为成人发展理论提供一种更经济、更少劳动密集型的衡量标准，并将允许未来研究发展差异对教师在专业发展计划内和跨专业发展计划的经验的影响。

This 16-month project focuses on exploring the use of Kegan's adult developmental theory to explain the important differences teachers experience in the same mathematics professional development. The only current measure of this developmental difference, the Subject-Object Interview, is expensive and labor-intensive to administer. This project will develop a written instrument and methods that would provide a more economic and less labor-intensive measure of adult developmental theory and would allow for future study of the impact of developmental differences on teachers' experiences within and across professional development programs.