Exploring the Impact of Specialists on Science Learning at the Elementary Level: A Conference to be Held in Boston, Massachusetts, Late Fall 2006

教育发展中心(EDC)科学教育中心(EDC)提议召开一次邀请性会议，以定义、描述和审查现有的基础科学专家使用模式；探索影响科学专家使用的教育、政策和财务问题；最重要的是，制定研究议程，以评估专家管理的基础科学项目对学生结果的质量和有效性。关于科学专家的作用和影响的现有文献有限。现有的主要集中在对各种模式的描述和对它们的相对优点的辩论上。尽管许多学区使用不同的模式将科学专家作为基础科学项目的一部分，但目前几乎没有关于这些模式中的任何一种在提高学生科学学习方面的有效性。

The Center for Science Education at Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) proposes an invitational conference to define, describe and examine existing models for using elementary science specialists; explore the educational, policy and financial issues that impact the use of science specialists; and most importantly, develop a research agenda to assess the quality and effectiveness of specialist-managed elementary science programs on student outcomes. Existing literature about the role and impact of science specialists is limited. What exists focuses primarily on descriptions of various models and debates about their relative merits. Although many school districts employ different models for using science specialists as a part of their elementary science program, there currently is little about the effectiveness of any of these models in enhancing student science learning.