Study of Student Achievement Trends in the Urban Systemic Program

COSMOS公司自1999-2000财年城市系统方案(USP)启动以来一直担任该方案的外部评估者。到目前为止，已经对USP的前两个队列进行了接近完成的跨地点评价。新出现的数据显示，USP在前两个队列中对城市学校的STEM教育(并提高了学生成绩)产生了积极影响。请拨出资金，以确保评价工作跨越整个项目组合(第1至第3组)，以便为若干年的教育改革提供更长远的观点。此外，拟议的项目将使研究人员能够检验改革措施的结构效度，以确保所使用的工具充分和准确地评估系统性改革的价值和优点。

The COSMOS Corporation has served as an external evaluator for the Urban Systemic Program (USP) since its inception in FY1999-2000. To date a nearly completed cross-site evaluation has been conducted on the first two cohorts of the USP. The emerging data show that the USP has positively impacted STEM education in urban schools (and improved student achievement) across the first two cohorts. Funds are requested to ensure that evaluative efforts span the entire portfolio (cohorts 1-3) to provide a longer-term perspective for education reform over a number of years. In addition, the proposed project will allow the researchers to test the construct validity of reform measures to ensure that the instruments used adequately and accurately assess the worth and merit of the systemic reform.