Advocating for an Inventive and Transformative Recovery in National STEM Education

美国教育部正在向各州发放约50亿美元的ARRA基金，旨在促进教育系统的创新。 这些资金的既定分配模式是在“不让一个孩子掉队”的框架内，支持《中小学教育法》和2007年《美国竞争法》的目标。 关于如何分配和衡量这50亿美元的影响，有广泛的科学讨论。 该项目的目标是召集一个专家小组，根据先前的改革努力，从学习、技术、科学和经济的角度审查拟议的教育创新资金分配框架。 由此产生的论文和专著借鉴了理论和实证文献，描述了政策和实践，为联邦和州的创新资金投资提供了科学依据。 这些投资包括：（a）？从最高层开始将高中教师、学生、教职员工和本科生与可能获得经济回报的真实科学实践联系起来的项目，（B）对真实科学和数学学习的更丰富的评估形式，以及（c）对学生成绩的更复杂的经济措施。 更广泛的影响： 这一项目的潜在更广泛影响是为教育创新投资成果的定义、实施和衡量提供科学依据。更广泛的影响包括产生更丰富的衡量学生学习成绩和STEM投资成果的指标。 此外，该项目支持涉及现代评估和对成就进行复杂经济跟踪的政策，其中每一项都是成功管理可能是美国有史以来最大的教育创新投资的关键。

The US Department of Education is disbursing about $5 billion in ARRA funds to states aimed at promoting innovations in the educational system. The stated model for disbursing these funds is to support the goals of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the America Competes Act of 2007, within the framing of No Child Left Behind. There is extensive scientific discussion about how to allocate and measure the impact of this $5 billion. The goal of this project is to convene an expert panel to examine the proposed framework for disbursing the funds for innovation in education from the points of view of learning, technology, science and economics in the light of prior reform efforts. The resulting papers and monograph draw on the theoretical and empirical literature to describe policies and practices that provide a scientific basis for the federal and state investments of the innovation dollars. Such investments include: (a) ?start at the top? programs that link high school teachers and students and faculty and undergraduates with authentic science practices with likely economic payoff, (b) richer forms of assessment of authentic science and mathematics learning, and (c) more sophisticated economic measures of student achievement. Broader Impacts: The potential broader impact of this project is the provision of a scientific basis for the definition, implementation and measurement of outcomes associated with investments in educational innovation. The broader impacts include the generation of richer measures of achievement in student learning and of STEM investment outcomes in general. In addition, the project supports policies that involve modern assessments and sophisticated economic tracking of achievement, each of which is key to the successful management of what is likely the largest investment in innovation in education ever attempted by the United States.