Illuminating the black box: Using consensus in student survey reports as an indicator of instructional microclimates in mathematics and science

促进评估方法的研究和创新（PRIME）计划旨在支持评估研究，特别强调：(1)探索确定STEM教育项目和计划的影响和有用性的创新方法；(2)建立和扩展评估STEM教育和劳动力发展倡议的理论基础，包括翻译和适应其他领域的方法；(3)发展评价领域的能力和基础设施。本研究的结果有可能有助于我们理解有效教学的性质和组织，以及在数学和科学课堂中组织有价值的教学实践以影响不同学生或学生群体学习的机制。利用有效教学测量项目的数据，本研究采用一种创新的混合方法设计来检验学生对Tripod学生感知调查的反应的课堂内变化是否可以用来识别教学小气候，以及这些小气候是否调节了数学和科学课堂教学实践的总体测量与学生成绩之间的关系。为此，调查人员将结合来自学生调查数据的定量分析证据，以及对同一教室的课程视频进行深入的定性分析。

The Promoting Research and Innovation in Methodologies for Evaluation (PRIME) program seeks to support research on evaluation with special emphasis on: (1) exploring innovative approaches for determining the impacts and usefulness of STEM education projects and programs; (2) building on and expanding the theoretical foundations for evaluating STEM education and workforce development initiatives, including translating and adapting approaches from other fields; and (3) growing the capacity and infrastructure of the evaluation field.The results of this study have the potential to contribute to our understanding of the nature and organization of effective teaching, and the mechanisms through which valued instructional practices are organized inside the mathematics and science classroom to impact learning for different students or groups of students. Using data from the Measures of Effective Teaching project, this study uses an innovative mixed-methods design to examine whether within-classroom variation in student responses to Tripod Student Perception Survey may be used to identify instructional microclimates, and whether these microclimates moderate the relationship between aggregate measures of instructional practice and student achievement in mathematics and science classrooms. To this effect, investigators will combine evidence from quantitative analysis of student survey data, with in-depth qualitative analysis of lesson videos of the same classrooms.