Recommendations to the National Science Foundation. An Approach to Assessing Initiatives in Science Education: Summary Report.

Autor/inn/en	Knapp, Michael S.; und weitere
Institution	SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.
Titel	Recommendations to the National Science Foundation. An Approach to Assessing Initiatives in Science Education: Summary Report.
Quelle	(1988), (35 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Case Studies; Cost Effectiveness; Decision Making; Educational Assessment; Educational Finance; Elementary School Science; Elementary Secondary Education; Evaluation Criteria; Evaluation Methods; Evaluation Needs; Evaluation Utilization; Financial Policy; Financial Support; Foundation Programs; Grants; Needs Assessment; School Support; Science Education; Secondary School Science + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Bildungsfonds; Fiscal policy; Finanzpolitik; Finanzielle Förderung; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Bedarfsermittlung; Schulförderverein; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung
Abstract	In supporting science education, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is, in some instances, funding the enrichment experiences of individual students, but more often it is supporting efforts to improve complex, decentralized education systems. Many feel that the Foundation's best chance for success lies in a grant support strategy that targets NSF's resources on aspects of these systems that are most susceptible to change and appropriately addressed by federal agencies. NSF needs to know what it is supporting and accomplishing--or likely to accomplish--and why, when it invests funds in science education. Having this information will contribute to the Foundation's own planning and good management, and also help demonstrate to external audiences what NSF is doing for science education. To serve these needs, assessment needs to be defined more broadly than conventional forms of program evaluation to include any systematc efforts to inform decision making in NSF by gathering, interpreting, and reporting evidence of various kinds. This summary report presents recommendations to NSF to guide it in assessing its initiatives in science education. The report outlines appropriate goals, procedures, arrangements, and resources necessary to establish an effective set of assessment practices that build on existing assessment activities in the Foundation, fit with agency culture and constraints, and are both comprehensive and practical. (CW)
Anmerkungen	SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Ave., Room B-S142, Menlo Park, CA 94025 ($3.00).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC