Targeted Infusion Project: Developing a Shared Instrument Resource Laboratory at JCSU

约翰逊·c·史密斯大学是一所少数族裔服务机构，将创建一个共享仪器研究实验室（SIRL），为化学和生物学研究提供尖端设备。新仪器将被安置在北卡罗莱纳州校园内占地65000平方英尺的科学中心。认证计划将确保教师和学生掌握仪器的使用。该机构的研究人员将为高中教师提供外联服务，让他们使用该仪器进行教学和研究项目合作。此外，计划于2014年举行的STEM会议将纳入大学和高中水平的教师和学生研究。小额赠款种子基金的可用性刺激了对新研究想法和合作的激励。来自高等教育、K-12、社区学院和私营机构的持份者将在三年的项目期间为项目的持续改进提供咨询协助。目前的研究表明，接触过仪器的学生为直接进入继续STEM研究生学习或STEM劳动力做好了更好的准备。将进行形成性和总结性评估，为STEM学科学生成绩的研究和实践提供信息。从这个项目中要检查的研究问题，例如，包括学生在分析化学和仪器分析方面的成绩是否随着使用美国化学学会（ACS）考试的测量而改变？

Johnson C. Smith University, a minority-serving institution, will create a Shared Instrumentation Research Laboratory (SIRL) that will provide cutting edge equipment for chemistry and biology research. The new instrumentation will be located in the new 65,000-square foot Science Center on the campus in North Carolina. A certification program will ensure that faculty and students are masters in the use of the instrumentation.Researchers at the institution will provide outreach to high school teachers to teach and collaborate on research projects using the instrumentation. In addition, the STEM conference planned for 2014 will incorporate faculty and student research at the college and high school level. Incentives for new research ideas and collaborations are stimulated by the availability of mini-grant seed funding. Stakeholders from higher education, K-12, community colleges and the private sector will provide advisory assistance for continuous improvement of the project over the three-year duration of the project. Current research indicates that students who have hand-on exposure to instrumentation are better prepared for direct entry into continuing STEM graduate studies or the STEM workforce. Both formative and summative evaluation will be conducted to inform research and practice on student achievement in STEM disciplines. Research questions to be examined from this project, for example, include whether student achievement in Analytical Chemistry and Instrumental Analysis changed as measured using the American Chemical Society (ACS) exams?