NISE Overview

Year 3 Accomplishments and Year 4 Activities

July 1, 1998

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

Overview

• Institute Vision, Goals, Research Program, and Strategies
• Institute Organization and Management Structure
• National Advisory Board
• NISE Fellows Program
• Year 3, A Time for Reflection
• Highlights of NISE Work to Date
• Some Ways in Which the NISE Is an Institute

Research Programs

• Systemic Reform: Policy and Evaluation (William H. Clune and Norman L. Webb)
• Professional Development (Susan Loucks-Horsley)
• College Level One (Arthur B. Ellis)
• Secondary Teacher Education Project: Toward a Distributed Professional Community Model (Sharon J. Derry)
• Scientists and Educators Collaborating in Preservice Teacher Education (Angelo Collins)
• Graduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education (Terrence S. Millar)
• National Partnership in Advanced Computational Infrastructure Supercomputer Project (Greg Moses)

Dissemination Programs

• Interacting with Professional Audiences (Senta A. Raizen)
• Communicating with Mass Audiences
• The Why Files (Susan H. Trebach)
• The Why Files Research (William Eveland and Sharon Dunwoody)

Organizational Process Programs

• Cognitive Studies of Interdisciplinary Collaboration (Sharon J. Derry)
• NISE Formative Evaluation (Susan B. Millar)

Summary

References

Appendix

• NISE Staff and Collaborators
• NISE Conferences, Forums, and Workshops
• NISE Publications
• NISE Web Sites
  

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