Creating College-High School Partnerships to Assess the Prevalence of Antibiotic Resistant Microbes Across the Environment

有一个国家需要吸引和留住学生在科学通过调查或发现为基础的研究，是基于当前的研究方法的结合。这项工作将通过启动一个大规模的研究项目，其中个别学生的数据点在一个低成本，短期课程为基础的研究模块，以变革的方式提高本科教育的质量。该项目的总体目标是为学生提供一个真实的研究项目，可以很容易地传播到其他学校。学生将收集数据，以确定环境中抗生素耐药细菌的流行情况。目标人群是大学过渡的高中生和目前的本科生。理科本科生将担任他们的中学伙伴的同伴导师。该项目提供了一个机会，在各种类型的机构（公立、私立、两年制和四年制大专院校以及中学）建立一个研究人员网络。该项目在时间、预算、设备和教员专业知识方面对执行教员的要求较低。其目的是提供一个真实的探究为基础的活动，而不妥协的课程要求和时间限制方便。此外，该项目将提供一个低风险的网关过渡教师从使用传统的教学实践，以探究为基础的学习在他们的课堂上。该项目的具体目标是：（1）开发教学和学习材料以及研究计划，供各种机构类型的教师使用，为广泛的学生提供服务，（2）为至少900名中学生和900名本科生提供基于课程的研究经验，（3）建立伙伴关系，增加中学生和教师接触本科科学家和学生的机会，（4）建立一个人群抗生素耐药性数据库-数百名高中生和大学生的努力。所有本科生参与者将被要求采取课堂本科生研究经验（CURE）调查，使用自我评估来衡量一系列的课程成果，如学习收益和科学态度问题。该项目的活动与数学中的共同核心标准保持一致，例如创建方程，建模和定量推理。实施前和实施后的调查将管理到教师参与者，以评估他们的使用和对各种教学法的态度。

There is a national need to attract and retain students in the sciences through the incorporation of inquiry-based or discovery-based research that is based on current research methods. This work will improve the quality of undergraduate education in a transformative way by initiating a large-scale research project in which individual students data points in a low-cost, short duration course-based research module. The overall goal of this project is to provide student access to an authentic research project that can be easily disseminated to other schools. Students will collect data to determine the prevalence of antibiotic resistant bacteria in the environment. The targeted populations are both college transitioning high school students and current undergraduate students. Undergraduate science students will serve as peer mentors to their secondary school partners. This project provides an opportunity to create a network of researchers at a variety of institution types (public, private, 2-year and 4-year post-secondary institutions, and secondary schools). This project is designed to have low demands on the implementing instructors in terms of time, budget, equipment and instructor expertise. The intention is to provide easy access to an authentic inquiry-based activity without compromising curriculum requirements and time constraints. Additionally, this project will provide a low-stakes gateway to transition instructors from using traditional teaching practices to inquiry-based learning in their classrooms. The specific aims of the project are: (1) to develop teaching and learning materials and a research plan accessible to instructors from a variety of institution types serving a broad demographic range of students, (2) to provide a course-based research experience to at least 900 secondary and 900 undergraduate students, (3) to create partnerships that increase access of secondary school students and teachers to undergraduate-level scientists and students and (4) to generate a database of antibiotic resistance through the crowd-sourcing effort of hundreds of high school and college students. All undergraduate participants will be asked to take the Classroom Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) survey that uses self-assessment to measure a range of course outcomes such as learning gains and science attitude questions. The activities of this project are in alignment with the Common Core standards in mathematics such as creating equations, modeling, and quantitative reasoning. A pre- and post-implementation survey will be administered to the instructor participants to assess their use of and attitudes toward various pedagogical teaching methods.