Evaluating an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Training Program in Health Promotion Research
Evaluating an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Training Program in Health Promotion Research
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DOI：
10.1016/j.amepre.2008.11.014
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发表时间：
2009-04-01
影响因子：
5.5
通讯作者：
Whiteley, John A.
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作者：
Misra, Shalini;Harvey, Richard H.;Whiteley, John A.
背景资料：加州大学欧文分校跨学科暑期本科生研究体验（ID-SURE）项目有三个目标：（1）为本科生研究员设计跨学科健康促进培训课程;（2）制定评估和评估项目相关教育过程和产品的措施;（3）比较接受和未接受培训的学生的教育过程和产品测量。2005年、2006年和2007年期间，共有101名学生参加了ID-SURE方案。本研究采用纵向研究设计，在训练计划开始和结束时评估学生的跨学科态度和行为。在培训活动结束时，对学生的学术和研究成果的跨学科和知识质量进行了评估。此外，ID-SURE参与者的跨学科的态度，行为和研究产品进行了比较，70名参与者在另一个奖学金计划，没有一个跨学科的培训component.Results：暴露本科研究员的跨学科课程导致更多的参与，和积极的态度，跨学科的课堂和实验室活动。产品，如学生的研究项目的综合和跨学科的质量，没有表现出差异相比，那些没有接触到跨学科课程的本科生。然而，暴露于培训的本科生从事更多的跨学科行为，在年底的节目比谁没有受过跨学科的研究techniques.Conclusions：本研究的结果提供证据的ID-SURE程序的有效性，培训本科生的跨学科的概念，方法和技能，需要有效的科学合作。此外，本研究对跨学科健康研究培训项目的开发和评估做出了两个重要贡献：（1）它提出并评估了一个新的课程，用于培训本科生跨学科的健康促进理论，概念和方法，可以在其他环境和背景下复制;（2）它提供并测试了评估跨学科合作过程的新措施的可靠性，并制定了客观标准，以评估学生研究产品的综合和智力质量。
Background: The University of California at Irvine Interdisciplinary Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (ID-SURE) program had three objectives: (1) designing an interdisciplinary health promotion training curriculum for undergraduate research fellows; (2) developing measures for evaluating and assessing program-related educational processes and products; and (3) comparing these educational process and product measures between groups of Students who did or did not receive the training.Methods: A total of 101 students participated in the ID-SURE program during 2005, 2006, and 2007. A longitudinal research design was employed whereby students' interdisciplinary attitudes and behaviors were assessed at the beginning and end of the training program. The interdisciplinary and intellectual qualities of students' academic and research products were assessed at the conclusion of the training activities. In addition, ID-SURE participants' interdisciplinary attitudes, behaviors, and research products were compared to those of 70 participants in another fellowship program that did not have an interdisciplinary training component.Results: Exposing undergraduate research fellows to the interdisciplinary curriculum led to increased participation in, and positive attitudes about, interdisciplinary classroom and laboratory activities. Products, such as the integrative and interdisciplinary quality of student research projects, showed no differences when compared to those of undergraduates who were not exposed to the interdisciplinary curriculum. However, undergraduates exposed to the training engaged in more interdisciplinary behaviors at the end of the program than Students who were not trained in interdisciplinary research techniques.Conclusions: The findings from this Study offer evidence for the efficacy of the ID-SURE program for training undergraduate students in transdisciplinary concepts, methods, and skills that are needed for effective scientific collaboration. Additionally, this study makes two important contributions to the development and evaluation of interdisciplinary health research training programs: (1) It presents and evaluates a novel curriculum for training undergraduate students in interdisciplinary theories, concepts, and methods of health promotion that can be replicated in other settings and contexts; (2) It provides and tests the reliability of new measures for evaluating interdisciplinary collaborative processes and develops objective criteria for rating the integrative and intellectual quality of students' research products.