Reconstructing Research in Teacher Education to Provide Usable Knowledge and Support Teacher Education Improvement

该项目由EHR核心研究计划资助，其长期目标是指导和支持教师教育计划。 目前，关于如何最好地培训STEM K-12教师的重要研究工作是可用的。 因此，现在是反思教育研究人员已经学到的东西并计划新的研究设计和方法的适当时机，这些设计和方法可以维持和扩展STEM教师教育的改进。 该项目将与STEM教师教育工作者合作，研究现有的研究设计，并开发新的研究设计用于STEM教师教育。 利用研究来改善STEM教师教育可能有助于提高学生在K-12教室的学习。与一组STEM教师教育工作者合作，这个为期两年的项目旨在：1）开发强大的研究设计，可以现实地嵌入教师教育计划; 2）确定关键的K-12 STEM课堂实践，并设计一个概念验证工具，以捕捉这些实践中的一个或多个的性能; 3）出版工作文件，为师范教育工作者和其他有兴趣改进研究设计和制定新措施的人提供指导; 4）进行和报告证明的结果-概念研究：采用一种新的研究设计和测量方法来评价副教师的学习; 5）在教师教育研究人员和教育方法学家之间建立合作，旨在增加关于有效STEM教师教育实践的新知识的产生和传播。该项目包括STEM教育研究人员和STEM教师准备计划之间的强有力合作，这可能对改善STEM教育产生长期效益。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The long-term goal of this project, funded by EHR's Core Research Program, is to guide and support teacher education programs. Significant research work is currently available about how to best train STEM K-12 teachers. As a result, it is an appropriate time to reflect on what educational researchers have already learned and plan for new research designs and methods that can sustain and extend improvements in STEM teacher education. This project will work with STEM teacher educators to study existing research designs and develop new ones to use in STEM teacher education. Using research to improve STEM teacher education is likely to contribute to increased student learning in K-12 classrooms.Working in partnership with a group of STEM teacher educators, this two-year project aims to: 1) Develop strong research designs that can be realistically embedded in teacher education programs; 2) Identify key K-12 STEM classroom practices and design a proof-of-concept instrument to capture performance on one or more of these practices; 3) Publish working papers that provide guidance to teacher educators and others interested in improving research designs and developing new measures; 4) Conduct and report results of a proof-of-concept study that uses one of the newly developed research designs and measures to evaluate preservice teacher learning; and 5) Create a collaboration between teacher education researchers and educational methodologists aimed at increasing the generation and dissemination of new knowledge about effective STEM teacher education practices. This project includes strong collaborations among STEM education researchers and STEM Teacher Preparation programs, which may have long ranging benefits for improving STEM education.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.