Applied Research In Science Education- ARISE Project Phase 1

北方亚利桑那大学和亚利桑那州的几个小学学区（梅萨公立学校，Cottonwood-Oak Creek学区和弗拉格斯塔夫联合学区）正在共同努力，以建立能力和准备提供基于研究的，工作嵌入式专业学习的小学教师，发展科学内容的知识，以及有效的教学法，有意义地整合科学与其他基本内容的学习。利用MSP启动，该伙伴关系正在为这一转变奠定基础，方法是规划复制和评估加州埃尔森特罗的瓦莱帝国科学项目（VIPS）和佛罗里达大西洋大学科学IDEAS的关键组成部分的战略。而不是取代科学教学创造更多的时间为语言艺术，这些方案有目的和有意义地整合识字教学与探究嵌入式科学教学;从两个方案的实施研究的结果表明，在科学和写作以及阅读和数学相当大的成就收益。因此，在亚利桑那州的不同学校复制瓦莱帝国和埃尔森特罗项目有可能产生证据，证明从这些项目中学到的战略可以对学生在阅读和数学方面的成绩产生积极影响，同时使学生能够胜任在当今全球社会中也很重要的科学和技术领域。在这一规划年中，合作伙伴正在建立共同的愿景，确定作用和责任，查明需要，制定和最后确定研究和评价计划，并确定执行模式。一名项目评价员正在收集关于伙伴关系发展和规划阶段目标完成情况的力度和效力的证据，并根据需要提出改进建议，以编写一份有效的全面目标明确的伙伴关系提案。

Northern Arizona University and several Arizona elementary school districts (Mesa Public Schools, Cottonwood-Oak Creek School District, and Flagstaff Unified School District) are working together to build capacity and readiness to provide research based, job-embedded professional learning for elementary teachers that develops science content knowledge, as well as effective pedagogy that meaningfully integrates science with other elementary content learning. Using the MSP-Start, the partnership is building a foundation for this transformation by planning strategies for replication and evaluation of key components of the Valle Imperial Project in Science (VIPS) in El Centro California, and Florida Atlantic University's Science IDEAS. Rather than displacing science instruction to create more time for language arts, these programs purposefully and meaningfully integrate literacy instruction with inquiry-embedded science instruction; results from studies of implementation of the two programs indicate considerable achievement gains in science and writing as well as reading and mathematics. Replication of the Valle Imperial and El Centro projects in diverse schools in Arizona thus has the potential to produce evidence that the strategies learned from these projects can have positive impact on student achievement in reading and math, while at the same time preparing students to be competent in areas of science and technology that are also important in today's global community. During this planning year, the partners are building a common vision, establishing roles and responsibilities, identifying needs, developing and finalizing the research and evaluation plans, and determining the model of implementation. A project evaluator is collecting evidence about the strength and effectiveness of partnership development and completion of planning phase goals, and providing recommendations for improvement as needed to prepare an effective full Targeted Partnership proposal.