Building Capacity for Determining the Content Alignment and Instructional Quality of K-12 NSDL Resources

NSDL Pathways人员正在接受培训，以使用AAAS项目2061制定的标准来确定其K-12资源的内容一致性和教学质量。 培训讲习班涵盖了资源的教学质量的调整和评估过程的要点，以衡量在按设计使用资源时促进学生学习的可能性。符合内容标准并为学生提供各种现象的资源对于理解关键科学思想至关重要。 K-12 NSDL资源在粒度和与标准对齐的质量方面差异很大。 再加上关于资源的教学质量的信息很少，这给试图找到最有效的资源的教育工作者带来了困难。NSDL Pathways人员正在接受培训使用的分析程序是基于大量的研究语料库，并与数百名K-12教师，材料开发人员，科学家，教师教育工作者和认知研究人员协商多年。 通过应用从现有最佳学习和教学研究中得出的分析标准，该项目正在改进教育数字资源的编目，以便在内容一致性和教学质量方面改进课堂使用的选择。

NSDL Pathways personnel are being trained to determine the content alignment and instructional quality of their K-12 resources using the criteria developed at AAAS Project 2061. The training workshops cover the essentials of the processes for alignment and evaluation of a resource's instructional quality as a measure of the likelihood that student learning is promoted when the resource is used as designed.Resources that are aligned with content standards and provide students with varied phenomena are essential to the understanding of key science ideas. K-12 NSDL resources vary greatly in the grain size and quality of their alignment to standards. Coupled with the existence of little information about the resources' instructional quality, this creates difficulty for educators trying to locate the most effective resources. The analysis procedure that the NSDL Pathways personnel are being trained to use is based on a substantial corpus of research and was developed over many years in consultation with hundreds of K-12 teachers, materials developers, scientists, teacher educators, and cognitive researchers. By applying analysis criteria derived from the best available research on learning and teaching, the project is improving the cataloging of educational digital resources enabling improved selection for classroom use to be made with respect to content alignment and instructional quality.