Strategies: Science Research Mentoring Program (SRMP)

策略：科学研究指导计划（SRMP）

• 批准号: 0833537
• 负责人: Preeti Gupta
• 金额: $ 119.35万
• 依托单位: American Museum Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-11-01 至 2013-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0833537&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Strategies; Science; Research; Mentoring; Program

This project focuses on new areas and technologies within the rapidly changing Biological Sciences. The mentoring program targets underrepresented youth and will serve 120 10th to 12th grade students over three years (three cohorts of 40 each), providing one year of preparatory courses, a summer institute for career exploration and lab orientation, and a second year of authentic research with an AMNH scientist mentor. It takes advantage of significant new resources at AMNH, including its new graduate school in Comparative Biology, and brings scientific discovery to young people with an immediacy and informality that is rare for students. The pedagogy will be active, hands-on, and developmentally appropriate. The project implements and evaluates three major features that make it unique among the small number of programs nationwide providing long-term high school science mentoring experiences: (1) The program will involve AMNH scientist mentors in designing and teaching preparatory courses that are infused with digital learning tools, as well as the technological and computational methodologies that the mentors use in their own research, including DNA sequencing, geometric morphometric analysis, bioinformatics including remote sensing technology, software for phylogenetic analysis, microscopy techniques and CAT scan and cryo-lab technology; (2) The project will develop a mentor training program through which Museum educators coach mentors on research-based informal science education techniques, including inquiry and hands-on experiences; and (3) The project will integrate biological anthropology, a Museum strength, into its preparatory courses and mentoring experience.

该项目重点关注快速变化的生物科学中的新领域和新技术。指导计划的目标是代表性不足的青年，将在三年内为120名10至12年级的学生提供服务（三个队列，每个40人），提供一年的预科课程，职业探索和实验室方向的夏季研究所，以及与AMNH科学家导师进行真实研究的第二年。它利用了AMNH的重要新资源，包括其新的比较生物学研究生院，并以学生罕见的即时性和非正式性为年轻人带来科学发现。教学方法将是积极的，动手，并发展适当的。该项目实施和评估了三个主要特点，使其在全国范围内提供长期高中科学指导经验的少数项目中独树一帜：（1）该计划将涉及AMNH科学家导师设计和教学的预备课程，注入数字学习工具，以及技术和计算方法，导师在自己的研究中使用，包括DNA测序，几何形态分析、生物信息学（包括遥感技术）、系统发育分析软件、显微技术、CAT扫描和低温实验室技术;（2）该项目将开发一个导师培训计划，通过该计划，博物馆教育工作者将对导师进行以研究为基础的非正式科学教育技术培训，包括探究和实践经验;及（3）该计划将把博物馆的强项生物人类学融入其预备课程及导师经验。