CAREER: From Research to Meta-Research to Practice - The Development of an Educational Learning Environment Framework for School Algebra

该奖项全部或部分由《2021年美国救援计划法案》（公法117-2）资助。该项目也由探索研究preK-12项目（DRK-12）资助，该项目旨在通过研究和开发创新资源、模型和工具，显著提高preK-12学生和教师对科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）的学习和教学。该项目通过使用一种方法，利用对一个主题的许多研究的累积分析能力，提高了对6至12年级代数教学的理解。这项工作将综合40年来在数学教育领域的研究成果，并制定一个统一的框架，以告知家长、学生、教师、其他教育工作者和研究人员。该项目将通过总结中学生学习代数的积极教育经验的数据驱动实践，促进研究向实践的转化。该框架将支持对如何教授学校代数的更深入的实际理解。这种新的认识正式承认了教师、学生的重要独立角色。还有父母，以及这些不同的角色如何协调一致地发挥作用。此外，首席研究员将指导博士后和博士生，并开发和实施一门关于元研究的新课程。该项目将进行元研究，整合定量元分析和定性元综合的结果，以帮助我们了解四种结构（即家长参与、学校氛围、代数教学方法和学生参与）对中学生代数成绩的影响。综合方法依赖于从现有研究中收集信息来分析代数项目的模式和主题。研究结果将用于开发学校代数的教育学习环境框架。这项工作将促进对影响代数教学和学习的校内和校外因素的理解。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 award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). This is also funded by the Discovery Research preK-12 program (DRK-12) which seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools.This project advances the understanding of teaching and learning of algebra in grades 6 through 12 by using a methodology that leverages the cumulative power of an analysis of many studies on a topic. This work will synthesize results aggregated from 40 years of research in the field of mathematics education and develop a unified framework to inform parents, students, teachers, other educators, and researchers. The project will promote the transformation of research into practice by summarizing data-driven practices of positive educational experiences for students learning algebra in middle and secondary grades. The framework will support a deeper practical understanding of how to teach school algebra. This new understanding formally recognizes the important independent roles of teachers, students. and parents, and how these different roles can be acted on in unison. In addition, the principal investigator will mentor post-doctoral and doctoral students and develop and implement a new course on meta-research.The project will conduct meta-research that integrates the results from quantitative meta-analysis, and qualitative meta-synthesis to inform our understanding of four constructs (i.e., parental involvement, school climate, algebra teaching approach, and student engagement) on the algebra achievements of secondary students. The synthesis methods rely on gathering information from existing research to analyze patterns and themes across algebra projects over time. The results will be used to develop an educational learning environment framework for school algebra. This work will advance understanding of in-school and out-of-school factors that influence the teaching and learning of algebra.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.