The Advancing Coherent and Equitable Systems of Science Education Project

该项目将研究国家科学领袖、教育研究人员和教育从业者之间的伙伴关系如何在国家科学教育中培养纵向一致性和公平性。这是一项重要的研究，因为在大多数州，学生群体正变得越来越多样化，各州需要帮助找到更好地为其管辖范围内的学校和地区服务的方法。通过这一努力，各州科学领袖将参与一个网络改进社区模式，该模式旨在制定和测试州级战略。具体地说，重点将放在调整教学材料和形成性评价，作为协调课程、教学和评价以及将教学与当地社区的兴趣和历史联系起来的相关政策战略。国家科学领导人和研究人员将调查某些战略如何以及在什么条件下支持连贯和公平的国家科学教育系统的出现，在这种系统中，所有学生都有机会达到具有挑战性的新科学标准。该项目将建立知识和理论，以了解在何种条件下，国家团队网络能够在当地地区和学校促进以文化为基础的教学的连贯指导。合作伙伴将共同合作，诊断促进一致性和公平性的当前挑战，然后通过测试和研究培养一致性和公平性的战略，开发有关促进一致性和公平性条件的知识和资源。基于设计的迭代研究方法将用于为科学和工程学习愿景的公平实施建立基础知识，该愿景整合了学科核心思想，科学和工程实践，以及从学习的文化角度工作的横切概念。一个多案例研究将用于收集关于网络改进社区模式对领导力发展的影响的数据，以有效地改善国家的努力。调查和访谈将用于收集有关共同设计工作、资源的使用和适应以及国家科学领导人获得的知识的信息。还将收集关于团队合作的政治条件和基础设施作为发展战略知识领导的潜在促进因素和障碍的数据。数据分析将确定与科学领导者与公平相关的战略知识领导力增长相关的模式或条件配置。这种技术将产生基于证据的主张，说明支持和障碍如何以及何时对公平战略知识领导的增长起作用。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will examine how partnerships among state science leaders, education researchers and education practitioners cultivate vertical coherence and equity in state science education. This is an important study because in most states, the student population is becoming more diverse, and states need help in finding ways to better serve schools and districts within their jurisdictions. Through this effort, state science leaders will participate in a networked improvement community model organized to develop and test state-level strategies. Specifically, the focus will be on the adaptation of instructional materials and formative assessment as linked policy strategies for aligning curriculum, instruction, and assessment and for relating instruction to the interests and histories of local communities. State science leaders and researchers will investigate how and under what conditions certain strategies support the emergence of coherent and equitable state systems of science education in which all students have opportunities to meet challenging new science standards. The project will build knowledge and theory about the conditions under which a network of state teams can promote coherent guidance for culturally-based instruction in local districts and schools. Together the partners will collaborate to diagnose current challenges to promoting coherence and equity and then develop knowledge and resources about conditions that promote coherence and equity by testing and studying strategies for cultivating it.An iterative design-based research approach will be used to build foundational knowledge for the equitable implementation of the vision of science and engineering learning that integrates disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts working from a cultural perspective on learning. A multiple-case study will be used to collect data about the impact of the networked improvement community model on leadership development to effectively improve state efforts. Surveys and interviews will be used to gather information on co-designing efforts, use and adaptation of resources, and knowledge gained by state science leaders. Data will also be collected on political conditions and infrastructures of teamwork as potential facilitators and barriers to the development of strategic knowledge leadership. Analyses of data will identify patterns or configurations of conditions associated with growth in science leaders' strategic knowledge leadership related to equity. This technique will generate evidence-based claims for how and when supports and barriers matter for growth in strategic knowledge leadership for equity.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.