CRI: Center for Research on Children: Conducting, Synthesizing, and Disseminating Development Science to Benefit Children, Science and Society

CRI：儿童研究中心：开展、综合和传播发展科学，造福儿童、科学和社会

• 批准号: 0126555
• 负责人: Stephen Ceci
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0126555&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CRI; Center; Research; Children; Conducting

Every day we hear media reports of far-reaching decisions affecting children's lives--made by legislators, politicians, school boards, government agencies, judges, and others--ostensibly based on sound research. But basic scientists often cringe when they learn of the misunderstanding and misapplication of the research that allegedly informs these decisions. There exists in our society a schism between the scientists who conduct sound empirical research and the decision-makers who translate it into practice. The goal of CIRC is to improve the quality of the conduct and dissemination of child-related research. We aim to place rigorous, scientifically defensible research findings into the hands of society's decision-makers to better inform their thinking about complex issues and the decisions they make. Research conducted through the institute will also inform basic science in the core disciplines. CIRC will achieve these goals by commissioning and servicing national teams of outstanding developmental scientists to study policy-relevant questions and create a consensus report for broad dissemination. Questions will be selected on the basis of their potential to contribute core knowledge to basic science. The planned dissemination process is designed to inform policy-makers and also to impact the lives of the next generation of scholars now in high school, college, and graduate school. CIRC will foster the integration of research, undergraduate education, graduate and postdoctoral training, and public dissemination of rigorous child-related scholarship with the potential to benefit children, science, and society. CIRC's research will tap the developmental sciences (including developmental psychology, economics, medicine, neuroscience, and life-course sociology). CIRC's goals will be accomplished through the interaction of seven components designed to (a) contribute to basic scientific knowledge, (b) inform policy and the media, and (c) integrate these first two goals with undergraduate education of underserved populations and graduate/postgraduate training of the next generation of scholars. CIRC will enable multidisciplinary teams to undertake studies pertaining to children in any substantive area of developmental science (e.g., social, cognitive, biological). CIRC's seven components are: 1) A mechanism to commission high quality, developmental science studies on questions of relevance to children; 2) The assembling of an Advisory Board of eminent scholars from developmental psychology, neuroscience, economics, medicine, policy, and sociology, who will guide the selection of research topics to be commissioned and the nomination of scholars to conduct the research. The Advisory Board will also mentor postdocs and grad students, advise teams of visiting scholars on substantive issues, participate in miniconferences, and help spread the word about CIRC's existence and aims; 3) Graduate and postdoctoral training experiences to provide the next generation of scholars with unique training in conducting rigorous developmental research that benefits children; 4) A postsecondary training initiative to insert into current curricula the results of commissioned studies, targeting colleges and universities with substantial Latino and African American enrolments and low-SES community colleges serving students of all races; 5) Formal print dissemination (the publication of a monograph series translating promising developmental research into policy proposals, the preparation of press releases, etc.); 6) Formal non-print dissemination (the organization of miniconferences, a public web site, and press conferences); and 7) Coordination with existing Cornell centers and institutes to leverage resources of this proposal.

每天我们都听到媒体报道，立法者、政治家、学校董事会、政府机构、法官和其他人做出了影响儿童生活的深远决定，这些决定表面上是基于合理的研究。但是，当基础科学家得知对据称为这些决定提供信息的研究的误解和误用时，他们往往会畏缩。在我们的社会中，进行可靠的实证研究的科学家和将其转化为实践的决策者之间存在着分裂。儿童研究中心的目标是提高开展和传播与儿童有关的研究的质量。我们的目标是把严谨的，科学上可辩护的研究成果交给社会的决策者，以更好地为他们对复杂问题的思考和他们所做的决定提供信息。通过该研究所进行的研究还将为核心学科的基础科学提供信息。为实现这些目标，该委员会将委托由杰出发展科学家组成的国家小组研究与政策有关的问题，并编写一份协商一致的报告，供广泛传播。将根据问题对基础科学贡献核心知识的潜力来选择问题。计划中的传播过程旨在为政策制定者提供信息，并影响现在高中，大学和研究生院的下一代学者的生活。CIRC将促进研究、本科生教育、研究生和博士后培训的整合，并公开传播与儿童有关的严谨奖学金，使儿童、科学和社会受益。CIRC的研究将利用发展科学（包括发展心理学、经济学、医学、神经科学和生命过程社会学）。该中心的目标将通过七个组成部分的相互作用来实现，这些组成部分旨在：（a）促进基本科学知识;（B）为政策和媒体提供信息;（c）将前两个目标与服务不足人口的本科教育和下一代学者的本科/研究生培训结合起来。CIRC将使多学科小组能够在发展科学的任何实质性领域（例如，社会的、认知的、生物的）。CIRC的七个组成部分是：1）建立一个机制，委托对与儿童有关的问题进行高质量的发展科学研究; 2）组建一个由来自发展心理学、神经科学、经济学、医学、政策和社会学的著名学者组成的咨询委员会，他们将指导委托研究课题的选择和进行研究的学者的提名。咨询委员会还将指导博士后和格拉德生，就实质性问题向访问学者小组提供咨询意见，参加小型会议，并帮助传播关于CIRC的存在和目标的信息; 3）研究生和博士后培训经验，为下一代学者提供进行有利于儿童的严格发展研究的独特培训; 4）一项中学后培训倡议，将委托进行的研究的结果纳入现有课程，目标是拉丁美洲和非洲裔美国人入学率高的学院和大学以及为所有种族学生服务的社会经济地位低的社区学院; 5）正式的印刷品传播（出版一系列专著，将有希望的发展研究转化为政策建议，编写新闻稿等）; 6)正式的非印刷传播（组织小型会议，公共网站和新闻发布会）; 7）与现有的康奈尔中心和研究所协调，以利用本提案的资源。