Playing with the data: Developing digital supports for middle school science teachers using game-based formative assessment

探索研究K-12计划(DRK-12)旨在通过研究和开发创新资源、模型和工具(RMT)，显著提高K-12学龄前学生和教师在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)方面的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究和先前的研究和开发工作的基础上，这些研究和开发工作为拟议的项目提供了理论和经验证明。该项目将使用基于设计的研究周期来建立关于如何促进教师解释和使用基于数字游戏的形成性评估数据的新知识。这项研究还将为Play的修订和扩展提供信息，Playly是一个现有的在线数据报告仪表盘，可以与多个数字游戏一起使用。该项目由教育发展中心S儿童与科技中心的研究人员和GlassLab的评估和游戏开发团队合作完成。研发团队将与在该国不同地区不同学校工作的60名中级科学教师建立为期三年的合作伙伴关系。该项目的目标是完善一个在线形成性评估平台，该平台利用一款旨在教授中学议论文的视频游戏中的数据。它对教师在使用基于游戏的平台时可用的数据工具和相关材料的设计特征进行了严格的研究，以指导他们正在进行的教学(即形成性评估工具)。本项目的结果将包括支持中学理科教师使用数字游戏进行评估以及设计和实施数据仪表板的实用、循证的建议。主要受众包括教育游戏设计师、基于游戏的评估开发人员、形成性评估专家和中等科学教与学的领导者。

The Discovery Research K-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools (RMTs). Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects.This project will use cycles of design-based research to build new knowledge about how to facilitate teachers' interpretation and use of digital game-based formative assessment data. The research will also inform the revision and expansion of Playfully, an existing, online data-reporting dashboard that can be used with multiple digital games. The project is a collaboration between researchers at Education Development Center Inc.'s Center for Children and Technology (EDC|CCT) and the assessment and game development teams at GlassLab. The research and development teams will engage in a three-year partnership with 60 middle-grade science teachers working in diverse school settings in different parts of the country. The aim of the project is to refine an online formative assessment platform that utilizes data from a video game designed to teach argumentation at the middle school level. It provides rigorous research on the design features of data tools and associated materials available to teachers to inform their ongoing instruction (i.e., formative assessment tools) when using game-based platforms.Dissemination of the results of this project will include practical, evidence-based suggestions for supporting middle school science teachers' use of digital games for assessment, and for the design and implementation of data dashboards. Key audiences include educational game designers, game-based assessment developers, formative assessment experts, and leaders in middle grade science teaching and learning.