Applied Research In Science Education- ARISE Project Phase 1

北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、科顿伍德-橡树溪学区和弗拉格斯塔夫联合学区)正在合作建设能力和准备，为小学教师提供以研究为基础、以工作为基础的专业学习，发展科学内容知识，以及有效的教学方法，将科学与其他基本内容学习有效地结合起来。利用MSP-START，该伙伴关系正在通过规划加州埃尔森特罗的Valle Imperial Project(VIPS)和佛罗里达大西洋大学的Science Ideas的关键组成部分的复制和评估战略，为这种转变奠定基础。这些计划没有取代科学教学来为语言艺术创造更多的时间，而是有目的和有意义地将识字教学与探究式科学教学结合在一起；对这两个计划实施的研究结果表明，在科学和写作以及阅读和数学方面取得了相当大的成就。因此，在亚利桑那州的不同学校推广Valle Imperial和El Centro项目可能会产生证据，表明从这些项目中学到的策略可以对学生的阅读和数学成绩产生积极影响，同时培养学生在当今全球社会也很重要的科学和技术领域具有竞争力。在本规划年，合作伙伴正在建立共同愿景，确定角色和责任，确定需求，制定和最后确定研究和评估计划，并确定实施模式。一名项目评估员正在收集关于发展伙伴关系和完成规划阶段目标的力度和有效性的证据，并根据需要提出改进建议，以编制有效的、有针对性的伙伴关系提案。

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.