NRT-UtB: Science of learning, from neurobiology to real-world application: a problem-based approach

NRT-UtB：学习科学，从神经生物学到现实世界应用：基于问题的方法

基本信息

批准号：
1735225
负责人：
James Magnuson
金额：
$ 299.98万
依托单位：
University of Connecticut
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-08-01 至 2023-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1735225&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
NRT UtB Science learning neurobiology

项目摘要

Learning is the basis of human mental development and the process of learning continues throughout our lives. Perhaps more than anything else, how and what we learn shapes who we are. This project has the dual aims of achieving a deeper scientific understanding of learning, and communicating a deeper understanding of the science of learning to scientists and the public. Over several decades, diverse fields including genetics, neuroscience, linguistics, education, and psychology have generated a wealth of knowledge about myriad aspects of how humans learn, but a grand challenge remains: to integrate that knowledge into a unified understanding of learning based on these diverse fields, and on scales ranging from the gene to the neuron, brain, and human behavior. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award to the University of Connecticut will help prepare the next generation of researchers to meet this challenge. The traineeship, focusing on the science of learning, will train fifty (50) PhD students, including twenty-five (25) funded trainees, from education, genetics, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, and speech-language-hearing sciences. By emphasizing a problem-based approach (learning by doing), embracing collaboration across a broad a spectrum of disciplines, and integrating hands-on training in communication and leadership skills that enable effective multidisciplinary project design, management, and scientific discovery, this program will offer trainees unique preparation for a range of careers in academia, industry, and the public sector. The training program has five major components: an intensive one-year seminar that surveys the science of learning across all participating fields, a hands-on practicum where trainees learn to design and implement multidisciplinary research, faculty-student research interest groups that serve as brainstorming launch pads for new scientific challenges, data stewardship modules, and integrated training in outreach and communication. The seminar provides a cross-disciplinary introduction to the science of learning and the challenge of technical communication, while the practicum emphasizes practical skills crucial in academic and nonacademic careers that graduate education too often lacks: project design and management, budgeting and resource allocation, and external communications. The research interest groups, which will evolve as promising research proposals emerge from the practicum, serve as both focal point for research and organizational structure for the participants. From their first day in the program, students face the challenge of how to clearly and effectively share ideas without assuming prior knowledge or relying on technical jargon, a skill that not only enables excellence in research, but empowers trainees to become ambassadors for their work to society as a whole. This program will also promote diversity in careers requiring advanced training through best practices in recruitment and retention.The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The Traineeship Track is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary research areas, through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.

学习是人类心理发展的基础，学习过程在我们一生中一直在继续。也许最重要的是，我们如何以及我们学习的形状是我们的身份。该项目的双重目的是实现对学习的更深入的科学理解，并向科学家和公众传达对学习科学的深入了解。几十年来，包括遗传学，神经科学，语言学，教育和心理学在内的各种领域为人类学习方式的众多方面提供了丰富的知识，但仍然存在一个巨大的挑战：将这些知识融入基于这些不同领域的学习中，以及从这些不同的领域，以及从基因到神经元，大脑，大脑，人类和人类行为和人类的范围。康涅狄格大学的国家科学基金会研究训练（NRT）奖将帮助下一代研究人员应对这一挑战。专注于学习科学的实习生将培训五十（50）个博士学位学生，包括25（25）个资助的学员，来自教育，遗传学，语言学，心理学，神经科学和语音语言听力科学。通过强调一种基于问题的方法（通过做学习），拥抱在广泛的学科中的协作以及整合在沟通和领导能力方面的动手培训，从而使有效的多学科项目设计，管理和科学发现能够为受训者提供独特的学术界，工业，行业和公共部门的职业准备。该培训计划有五个主要组成部分：一个密集的为期一年的研讨会，该研讨会调查了所有参与领域的学习科学，这是一个动手实践，学员学会了设计和实施多学科研究，教师研究的研究兴趣小组，这些研究兴趣小组可以作为集思广益的启动垫，以实现新的科学挑战，数据管理模块，并在宣传和整合培训和整合培训。研讨会为学习科学和技术交流的挑战提供了跨学科的介绍，而实践强调了研究生教育经常缺乏的学术和非学术职业至关重要的实践技能：项目设计和管理，预算和资源分配，预算和资源分配以及外部沟通。研究兴趣小组将演变为实践中有希望的研究建议，既是参与者的研究和组织结构的焦点。从计划的第一天开始，学生就面临如何在不假定先验知识或依靠技术术语的情况下清晰有效地分享想法的挑战，这项技能不仅可以使学员成为卓越的研究，还可以使学员成为整个社会工作的大使。该计划还将通过招聘和保留方面的最佳实践来促进职业生涯中的多样性。NSF研究训练（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施用于STEM研究生教育培训的大胆，新的潜在变革性模型。通过全面的跨学科研究领域的STEM研究生，培训轨道致力于有效地培训STEM研究生，通过全面的培训模型，这些模型具有创新，基于证据的，并且与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求保持一致。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（132）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Psychology of cleansing through the prism of intersecting object histories

通过交叉客体历史的棱镜进行净化的心理学

DOI：
10.1017/s0140525x20000552
发表时间：
2021
期刊：
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
影响因子：
29.3
作者：
Ekves, Zachary;Prystauka, Yanina;Davis, Charles P.;Yee, Eiling;Altmann, Gerry T.
通讯作者：
Altmann, Gerry T.

Behavioral and neuroanatomical outcomes following altered serotonin expression in a hypoxic-ischemic injury neonate rodent model

缺氧缺血性损伤新生儿啮齿动物模型中血清素表达改变后的行为和神经解剖学结果

DOI：
10.3233/npm-200418
发表时间：
2020
期刊：
Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
影响因子：
0
作者：
Casavant, S.G.;Li, H.;Cong, X.;Starkweather, A.;Moore, J.;Rosenkrantz, T.S.;Fitch, R.H.
通讯作者：
Fitch, R.H.

Altered Heterosynaptic Plasticity Impairs Visual Discrimination Learning in Adenosine A1 Receptor Knock-Out Mice