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Appendix D: Current Projects on Indicators
Appendix D: Current Projects on Indicators
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provided an analysis of the current state of indicators for assessing precollege science and mathematics education, and that report reviewed existing data-collection efforts that may contribute to indicators. The report also highlighted the kinds of data and information that should be available to policy makers, but often are not.
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The study report incorporates findings and recommendations on indicators from the committee's first report as well as recent research and data collection that would contribute to a monitoring system. The Educational Testing Service is conducting a study for the National Science Foundation to determine the possibility of developing a comprehensive unified data base for science education indica
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The integrated data base would be updated annually to provide the capacity for analyses of the status of students in science and engineering from one year to the next. The comprehensive data base would allow the National Science Foundation to answer regularly such questions as the change in quantitative ability of high school seniors from year to year, the expected number of graduates planning to enroll in college science majors, or the science achievement of specific groups of minority students planning to enter teaching.
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A special task force, supported by the National Science Foundation, is working on state science and mathematics indicators. The committee has worked closely with the assessment center staff in ensuring that the interests and needs of states for improved indicators are reflected in this report.
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Because of the general dissatisfaction with current achievement tests, the National Science Foundation supported a project at the Educational Testing Service to develop better measures for assessing student knowledge and performance in science. A manual has been published for science and mathematics coordinators and teachers on exercises designed for hands-on assessment of such skills as classifying, observing and making inferences, formulating hypotheses, interpreting data, designing an experiment, and conducting a complete experiment (National Assessment of Educational Progress, 1987~.
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First, the 1985 Public School Survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (now the Center for Education Statistics) focused on the status and characteristics of public school teachers.
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This teacher supplement, partially supported by the National Science Foundation, will provide information on career patterns and decisions related to the teaching profession. Another project that will provide data for indicators is the School Mathematics Monitoring Center, established at the University of Wisconsin with the support of the National Science Foundation.
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National Science Board Commission on Precollege Education in Science, Math ematics, and Technology 1983 Educating Amcmcan~ for the At Ccrltury. Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation.
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Panel on Statistics on Supply and Demand for Precollege Science and Mathe matics Teachers 1987 Toward Understanding Teachers Supply and Demand: Priorities for Research and Dcoclopmcnt. Interim Report.
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