STEM Teacher Education Program Review

通过“STEM教师教育项目评估”，伍德罗·威尔逊国家联谊基金会正在制定一项计划，研究四所不同大学--普渡大学、印第安纳大学-普渡大学印第安纳波利斯分校(IUPUI)、鲍尔州立大学和印第安纳波利斯大学--的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教师教育项目的有效性、最佳实践和变革策略。这四个STEM教师教育项目最近已经或仍在经历根本性的变化，它们各自的制度演变仍处于起步阶段。这些项目承诺通过目前正在进行的校园特定流程来设计和实施的变化，是他们有资格参加伍德罗·威尔逊基金会的印第安纳州STEM教学奖学金的条件。通过改变STEM项目以满足基金会建立的一套标准，每所大学都有资格在至少两年内每年获得20名伍德罗·威尔逊教学研究员的资助。尽管每个新项目都符合伍德罗·威尔逊的标准，但它们各自使用不同的流程来计划、采用和实施更改。这提供了一个直接、紧迫和独特的研究机会--同一州的四个STEM教师教育项目同时正在发生重大变化--以审查STEM教师教育的最佳实践和变革战略。由于这些机构有不同的使命和文化(例如，普渡大学是一所赠地研究型大学；IUPUI是一所为城市服务的大学；印第安纳波利斯大学是一所私立机构；鲍尔州立大学是一所综合性公立大学，恰好在校园内有一所寄宿专科中学，为数学、科学和人文领域的有才华的高中生提供住宿)，这四所大学的差异使它们作为一个群体代表了美国教师培训计划的很大比例。该项目将为全面研究这四种不同的STEM教师教育方法的有效性奠定基础。对这些大学正在进行的变革过程的评估、比较和记录不仅本身具有智力上的价值，而且通过提供案例研究来提供非常不同的机构如何创建有效的STEM教师教育计划，也具有实用价值。

Through the "STEM Teacher Education Program Review," the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is developing a plan for studying the effectiveness, best practices, and change strategies of four graduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) teacher education programs at four different universities - Purdue University, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Ball State University, and the University of Indianapolis. These four STEM teacher education programs have recently or are still undergoing radical changes, with their individual institutional evolutions still in the beginning stages. The changes these programs have committed to design and implement through the campus-specific processes now underway were a requirement for their eligibility to participate in the Woodrow Wilson Foundation's Indiana STEM Teaching Fellowship. By changing their STEM programs to meet a set of standards established by the Foundation, each of the universities became eligible to receive funding for 20 Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows every year for at least two years. Although each new program conforms to Woodrow Wilson standards, they each are using a different process to plan, adopt, and implement changes. This offers an immediate, urgent, and distinctive research opportunity - four STEM teacher education programs within the same state undergoing significant change simultaneously - for examining best practices in STEM teacher education and change strategies. Because the institutions have different missions and cultures (e.g., Purdue is a land-grant research university; IUPUI is an urban-serving university; the University of Indianapolis is a private institution; and Ball State University is a comprehensive public university which happens to have a residential specialized secondary school on the campus for talented high school students in math, science, and the humanities), variation across the four makes them as a group representative of a large proportion of the total 'universe' of teacher preparation programs in the United States. The project will set the stage for a comprehensive study of the effectiveness of these four different approaches to STEM teacher education. The evaluation, comparison, and documentation of the change process being undertaken by these universities will have intellectual merit in its own right, but also practical value by offering case studies for how very different institutions can create effective STEM teacher education programs.