ERIC Number: ED591909
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Jul-30
Pages: 61
Abstractor: ERIC
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Evaluation of the Quality Elementary Science Teaching (QuEST) Discovery Research K-12 Grant: Annual Report for Year 4
Bousselot, Tracy; Chadwick, Kristine L.
Educational Policy Improvement Center
The Quality Elementary Science Teaching (QuEST) program is designed to deliver high-quality professional development (PD) in science content to elementary school teachers. QuEST includes both content and pedagogical instruction combined with a controlled teaching experience situated within a larger professional development context. The design of the PD is meant to provide meaningful and sustained changes in teachers' knowledge and practice, in turn leading to improvements in student learning. Through better understanding of how various settings for teacher learning give rise to different kinds of knowing, the aim of the QuEST project is to develop a scalable model for implementing situated PD. The overarching goals of this four-year National Science Foundation-funded Discovery Research K-12 project include the following: (1) Implement a high-quality situated PD model for K-6 teachers in science; (2) Conduct a comprehensive and rigorous program of research to study the impacts of this model on teacher and student learning; (3) Disseminate project outcomes to a variety of stakeholders to produce broader impacts. This report focuses on the evaluation activities in Year 4 of the grant, which began with the observations of the 2016 summer institute and concludes with the end-of-year teacher survey in April and May 2017.
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Science Education, Science Teachers, Grants, Program Evaluation, Faculty Development, Program Design, Program Implementation, Summer Programs, Institutes (Training Programs), Summative Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Qualifications, Self Efficacy, Program Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement
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Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC)
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