Evaluation Framework for Successful K-12 STEM Education: A Consensus Study

该奖项支持美国国家研究委员会（NRC）科学教育委员会和测试与评估委员会（BTOA）开展一项为期12个月的快速共识研究，以制定一项战略计划，跟踪NRC报告“成功的K-12 STEM教育”（2011）中概述的STEM教育的实施和改进。这项研究是对国会2011年11月通过的《2012财年商业、司法和科学拨款法案》的回应，该法案要求美国国家科学基金会支持这种追踪，并在2012年11月之前向委员会提交一份报告。一个具有适当专门知识的委员会将确定落实2011年报告建议所需的现有和额外措施；讨论将这些措施纳入现有数据收集计划的可行性，并将其与现有的和改进的科学学习成果措施联系起来；并确定需要进行的进一步研究，以便全面评估报告建议的进展情况。

This award supports the National Research Council's (NRC) Board on Science Education and Board on Testing and Assessment (BTOA) to conduct a fast-track 12-month consensus study to create a strategic plan for tracking the implementation and improvements in STEM education outlined in the NRC's report, "Successful K-12 STEM Education" (2011). The study is in response to the language in the FY12 Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Bill, approved by Congress November 2011, that calls for NSF to support such tracking and submit a report to the Committee by November 2012.A committee, with the appropriate expertise, will identify existing and additional measures needed to track to the 2011 report's recommendations; discuss the feasibility of including such measures in existing programs of data collection and link them to existing and improved measures of science learning outcomes; and identify additional research needed to inform a full-scale evaluation of progress toward the report's recommendations.