Improving Urban Middle School Science: A Collaborative Approach

教育发展中心提出的项目，改善城市中学科学，是一个面向七年级和八年级的多学科科学计划，旨在满足城市环境中早期青少年的需求。模块在科学、社会和技术问题的背景下整合了来自物理、人类和健康、生命和地球科学的科学概念和理解。该项目将建立在概念框架和教学战略、学区伙伴关系、教师培训设计以及评估和出版伙伴关系的基础上，这些伙伴关系是通过国家科学基金会资助的、目前正在教育发展中心和阳光通信公司制定的改善城市初级科学项目而建立的。波士顿、克利夫兰、洛杉矶、旧金山、巴尔的摩和马里兰州蒙哥马利县的学区和教师将在开发工作和实地测试中充分合作。SMART行动是美国女孩俱乐部的一个研究和发展项目，将就特别针对城市青年的非正式科学教育战略进行咨询，并将补充课程。这些材料将由一个杰出的咨询小组审查其科学准确性和教学合理性，而实地测试和评估将由波士顿学院测试、评估和教育政策研究中心(CSTEEP)进行。阳光通信公司将出版最终产品和现场测试材料，向教师发展基金捐款，并在整个项目中提供技术援助，以确保拟议模块的适销性。

Educational Development Center's proposed project, Improving Urban Middle School Science, is a multidisciplinary science program for the seventh and eighth grade that is targeted to the needs of early adolescents in urban environments. Modules integrate scientific concepts and understandings from the physical, human and health, life, and earth sciences within the context of science, society, and technology problems. This project will build on the conceptual framework and pedagogical strategies, school district partnerships, teacher training design, and assessment and publishing partnerships established through the NSF-funded Improving Urban Elementary Science Project currently under development at EDC and Sunburst Communications. School districts and teachers in Boston, Cleveland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Baltimore, and Montgomery County, Maryland will collaborate fully in the development effort and field-testing. Operation SMART, a research and development project of the Girls Clubs of America, will consult on informal science education strategies which are particularly responsive to urban youth and which will complement the curriculum. The materials will be reviewed for scientific accuracy and pedagogical soundness by a distinguished advisory panel, while field-testing and evaluation will be conducted by the Boston College Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy (CSTEEP). Sunburst Communications, Inc. will publish the final product and field test materials, contribute to a Teacher Development Fund, and provide technical assistance throughout the project to ensure marketability of the proposed modules.