The 2018 NSSME+

STEM领域的示范性教学鼓励来自不同背景的学生继续接受科学，技术，工程和数学方面的教育和职业。 然而，改善教学首先需要了解STEM教学的现状。 2018年全国科学和数学教育调查（NSSME+）将探讨这种教学目前在多大程度上是有效的，以证据为基础的教学实践，并将调查影响教师的因素？关于内容和教学的决定。 这将是地平线研究公司进行的一系列监测科学和数学教育状况的全国调查中的第六次。在Westat的帮助下。这次迭代将增加对计算机科学和工程教育的关注。2018年的数据将关注导致STEM中某些群体代表性不足的因素，进一步增加有关扩大参与方式的一般知识。该项目由EHR核心研究计划资助，该计划支持基础研究，促进STEM学习的研究文献，并对正式和非正式环境中的教育产生影响。2018年NSSME研究将对STEM教育体系的关键要素进行准确，最新的测量，并确定这些领域随着时间的推移的趋势。该研究将收集有关教师特征的数据，包括教师内容背景和人口统计数据;课程设置和入学人数;教科书/课程使用情况;教学策略;形成性评估;以及特定政策的影响（例如，《每个学生成功法案》（Every Student Succeeds Act）除了国家估计数之外，这项研究还将提供按社区类型和学生群体特点分列的结果。 研究人员将邀请NSF指标项目的主要研究者为2018年NSSME+工具提供投入，着眼于确定如何将其项目的工作融入或适应大规模调查。 所有分析将使用加权数据进行，计算学校，教师和班级权重以反映样本设计选择概率。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）建立和扩大评估STEM教育和劳动力发展举措的理论基础，包括翻译和调整其他领域的方法;（3）提高评估领域的能力和基础设施。该计划将支持三种类型的提案：探索性项目，包括概念验证和可行性研究;更广泛的全面项目;以及研讨会和会议。本提案符合上文第1类的要求。

Exemplary teaching in STEM fields encourages students from diverse backgrounds to pursue further education and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Improving teaching, however, first requires an understanding of the current landscape of STEM instruction. The 2018 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education (NSSME+) will explore the extent to which such instruction currently models effective, evidence-based, teaching practices, and also will investigate the factors that influence teachers? decisions about content and pedagogy. This will mark the sixth in a series of the national surveys monitoring the status of science and mathematics education conducted by Horizon Research Inc. with assistance from Westat. This iteration will add a focus on computer science and engineering education. The 2018 data will attend to factors that contribute to the underrepresentation of some groups in STEM, further adding to general knowledge about ways to broaden participation. The project is funded by the EHR Core Research program, which supports fundamental research that advances the research literature on STEM learning, and has implications for education in both formal and informal settings. The 2018 NSSME study will yield accurate, up-to-date measures of key elements of the STEM education system, and identify trends in these areas over time. The study will collect data on teacher characteristics, including teacher content background and demographics; course offerings and enrollments; textbook/program usage; instructional strategies; formative assessment; and the influences of particular policies (e.g., the Every Student Succeeds Act). In addition to national estimates, the study will provide results disaggregated by type of community and characteristics of the student body. The investigators will invite the Principal Investigators of the NSF Indicator projects to offer input on the 2018 NSSME+ instruments, with an eye towards identifying how the work of their projects could be infused or adapted into a large-scale survey. All analyses will be conducted using weighted data, with school, teacher, and class weights calculated to reflect the sample design selection probabilities.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. Three types of proposals will be supported by the program: Exploratory Projects that include proof-of-concept and feasibility studies; more extensive Full-Scale Projects; and workshops and conferences. This proposal meets the requirements of category 1 above.