Assessing the Use of Licensure Tests as an Indicator of Teachers? Science and Mathematics Content Knowledge for Teaching

2013年，美国国家研究委员会发布了一份名为《监测K-12 STEM教育的成功进展：一个国家在进步吗？》该报告概述了14项指标，以及创建一个监测全国STEM教育质量的系统所需的研究和开发。该项目是应“促进测量和评估创新”项目的“致同事信”请求而资助的，该项目专注于开发研究和工具，以提高国家测量这些指标的能力。本课题将研究指标6：教师的科学和数学内容知识的教学。该项目正在调查教师在华盛顿州教育工作者技能基础和认可测试中的分数在多大程度上可以预测学生在数学和科学成就测试中的分数。本研究的结果将为使用执照考试作为教师素质指标的有效性提供信息，作为指标6措施系统的一部分。这项研究的研究人员将使用华盛顿教育技能测试的数据，这些数据是在过去十年中为基础测试和过去四年中为认可测试收集的。来自中学教师的数据将与学生在中学数学、高中代数、高中几何和高中生物方面的成绩进行比较。将使用标准增值方法对许可证测试的预测有效性进行主体内估计。本研究的结果，无论是正面的还是负面的，都将为使用教师执照考试作为确定教师科学和数学教学内容知识的指标体系的一部分的有效性提供证据。

The National Research Council in 2013 released the report Monitoring Progress toward Successful K-12 STEM Education: A Nation Advancing?, which outlined 14 Indicators as well as the needed research and development to create a system to monitor the quality of STEM education in the nation. This project is funded in response to a Dear Colleague Letter request for research in the Promoting Innovation in Measurement and Evaluation program focused on developing research and tools to advance the nation's capability to measure these indicators. The researchers in this project will address Indicator 6: Teachers' science and mathematics content knowledge for teaching. The project is investigating the extent to which teachers' scores on the Washington State Educator Skills Basic and Endorsement tests are predictive of students' scores on mathematics and science achievement tests. The findings from this study will inform the validity of the use of licensure tests as one indicator of teacher quality as part of a system of measures for Indicator 6.The researchers in this study will be using data from the Washington Educator Skills Tests, collected over the past ten years for the Basic test and the past four years for the Endorsement tests. Data from secondary school teachers will be compared to student scores in middle school mathematics, high school Algebra, high school Geometry and high school Biology. Standard value-added methodology will be used to generate a within-subject estimate of the predictive validity of the licensure tests. Findings from this study, either positive or negative, will provide evidence of the validity of use of teacher licensing exams as part of an indicator system to determine teacher science and mathematics content knowledge for teaching.