CCSSO has established a collaborative research team involving Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) and American Institutes for Research (AIR) to investigate how professional development programs and activities in multiple sites be evaluated using a common set of research-based measures, and how a survey methodology can be used to evaluate the effects of professional development in improving instruction in mathematics and science.
The study will address the following research questions:
1. To what extent is the quality of the professional development supported by MSP activities consistent with a research-based definition of quality?
2. What effects do teachers' professional development experiences have on instructional practices and content taught in math and science classes? Are high-quality professional development activities more likely than lower-quality activities to increase the alignment of content with state standards and assessments?
3. How can MSP projects use study findings to improve professional development and the content and instruction of mathematics and science classes?
The Principal Investigator of Longitudinal Design is Rolf Blank.
More information can be
found on a separate web site created by this project: http:// www.ccsso.org/ projects/
surveys_of_enacted_curriculum/ index.cfm
.
This site was created to enhance communication and collaboration
between partners within the Longitudinal Design
project as well as to inform the public of the efforts of the Math
and Science Partnership Program. While selected documents in the
library and resources sections have been made available
to the public, only logged in members of the
Longitudinal Design project can post comments,
participate or read posts in the Working Groups, or see the interactive
Calendar.
