出版社：International Society for Design and Development in Education
摘要：The goals for STEM education are largely agreed, nationally and internationally. Work over the last 30 years in the research and development community, epitomized by ISDDE, has shown how to develop tools and processes for teaching, assessment and professional development that enable typical teachers to teach much better mathematics and science much more effectively. Why is this not reflected in most classrooms, and what can be done about it? This paper presents an analysis of the barriers to progress and an explicit model for tackling them. The lack of synergy between the worlds of policy, research and development, and practice is described, and explained in terms of the week-by-week pressures that divert attention from the stated common goal of educational improvement. The proposed way forward, based on the structures in medical research, tackles the different timescales by proposing three complementary strands of funded research and development that will offer policy makers well-engineered options from which to select policy initiatives. The model for change is exemplified here in a paper entitled "Towards Research-based Education: integrating policy, research and practice", written for policy makers and their advisors in the U.K. The intention is that others might adapt this model paper for their own contexts.
