Development of Research And Writing Skills (DRAWS): A tool for broader assessment to enhance research and research training

研究和写作技能的发展（DRAWS）：一种用于更广泛评估以加强研究和研究培训的工具

• 批准号: 10393926
• 负责人: Luis Guillermo Carvajal Carmona
• 金额: $ 0.67万
• 依托单位: CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10393926
• 关键词: Research Training; Writing; research and development; skills; tool

Summary A Bridges to the Doctorate program between the two major Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) in California's Central Valley is proposed. This program will assist under-represented minority (URM) students from the California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) with completing a Master's program in the biomedical sciences before continuing and completing their Ph.D. program at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), a research-intensive institution. This proposal will build on major research themes, activities and facilities at the two institutions including Research Infrastructure in Minority Institutions Program (RIMI) at Fresno State, the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) at UC Davis. Faculty members from the Colleges of Science and Mathematics (CSM) at Fresno State and biomedical research focused graduate groups at UC Davis will create a highly interactive training program. The overall aim of the Fresno State Bridges to Doctorate (B2D) program is to increase the number of URM graduate students entering and earning doctoral degrees in biomedical sciences. The program will recruit five graduate students each year with potential interests in pursuing research as a career and provide individually designed academic and research training plans to each. The B2D program consists of the following specific goals: • Enhance educational capabilities by developing their ability to read and critically analyze scientific literature, especially peer-reviewed papers; • Develop the appreciation for and understanding of the scientific method by demonstrating the capacity to propose hypothesis-driven, experimental protocols with appropriate controls that solve problems in a logical, stepwise fashion; • Refine professional skill sets through multiple opportunities to practice their oral and written skills and to network with other peers; actively participate and present at national/international research conferences to improve identification as a researcher and increase self-efficacy and science identity. • Develop an understanding of and appreciation for their responsible conduct in research through supplemental responsible conduct in research (RCR) training course as well as for instructions on enhancing scientific reproducibility; • Strengthening and improving science literacy by providing additional writing instruction, mentorship, and grantsmanship skills that will result in direct benefits in critical and analytical thinking. Finally, • Provide summer research at research-intensive labs at UC Davis for the B2D students to integrate research experience that mirrors what they will experience in graduate school. The Program Directors from both campuses have gathered a team of Faculty Mentors, an Advisory Committee and staff members, who are committed to the successful development of the program. All components of the Fresno-Davis Bridges program will be rigorously evaluated by an ongoing evaluation process to assess the success of the program. Addressing our objectives will allow us to achieve our short- and long-range objectives, which are: • To ensure that 90% of the B2D Scholars submit a graduate school application, with half the students being accepted into graduate Ph.D. programs in biomedical sciences in the first five years of the grant (short-range); • Over the next decade we expect to maximize (80%) our B2D Scholars to join a Ph.D. program and pursue a career in biomedical research (long-range); and • Over the next ten years, create a culture to expand and enhance the biomedical science curriculum developed by the B2D-Scholars program by the institutionalization of these practices (long-range). The Fresno-Davis B2D program will support the Scholars and lay the essential groundwork required to face the rigors of graduate school education in a highly competitive atmosphere. This B2D program will be part of a firm foundation for our students in the Central Valley to seek and earn their Ph.D. and establish careers as independent investigators and assume leadership positions in American science.

总结 两个主要的西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）之间的博士学位课程的桥梁 加州的中央谷被提议。该计划将帮助代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生 从加州州立大学，弗雷斯诺（弗雷斯诺州）完成硕士课程， 生物医学科学，然后继续并完成博士学位。加州大学戴维斯分校的一个项目 (UC戴维斯），一个研究密集型机构。这项建议将建立在主要的研究主题、活动和 这两个机构的设施，包括少数民族机构研究基础设施计划（RIMI）， 弗雷斯诺州立大学、加州大学戴维斯分校综合癌症中心以及临床和转化科学中心 （CTSC）在加州大学戴维斯分校。弗雷斯诺州立大学科学与数学学院（CSM）教师 加州大学戴维斯分校的生物医学研究重点研究生团体将创建一个高度互动的培训计划。 弗雷斯诺州桥梁博士学位（B2 D）计划的总体目标是增加 URM研究生进入并获得生物医学科学博士学位。该计划将招募 每年有五名研究生有潜在的兴趣从事研究作为职业，并提供 为每个人设计的学术和研究培训计划。B2 D计划包括 以下具体目标： ·通过培养他们阅读和批判性分析科学知识的能力来提高教育能力 文献，特别是同行评审的论文; ·通过展示能力，培养对科学方法的欣赏和理解 提出假设驱动的实验方案，并进行适当的控制，以解决问题， 逻辑的、逐步的方式; ·通过多种机会完善专业技能，练习口语和书面技能， 与其他同行建立联系;积极参与并出席国家/国际研究会议 提高作为研究人员的认同感，提高自我效能感和科学认同感。 ·通过以下方式了解和欣赏他们在研究中负责任的行为 补充的负责任的研究行为（RCR）培训课程以及关于 提高科学再现性; ·通过提供额外的写作指导，指导， 和granitarian技能，这将导致在批判性和分析性思维的直接利益。最后， ·在加州大学戴维斯分校的研究密集型实验室提供夏季研究，供B2 D学生融入 研究经验，反映了他们将在研究生院的经验。 来自两个校区的项目总监聚集了一个教师导师团队，一个顾问团队， 委员会和工作人员，谁是致力于该计划的成功发展。所有 弗雷斯诺-戴维斯桥梁计划的组成部分将通过一项正在进行的评估进行严格评估 评估方案是否成功。实现我们的目标将使我们能够实现我们的短期- 和长期目标，即： ·确保90%的B2 D学者提交研究生院申请，其中一半的学生 获得博士学位在生物医学科学计划在第一个五年的赠款 （短程）; ·在接下来的十年里，我们希望最大限度地（80%）我们的B2 D学者加入博士学位。程序和 从事生物医学研究（长期）;以及 ·在未来十年内，创造一种文化，以扩大和加强生物医学科学课程 由B2 D学者计划通过这些实践的制度化（长期）开发。 弗雷斯诺-戴维斯B2 D计划将支持学者，并奠定必要的基础，以面对 在竞争激烈的氛围中接受研究生院教育的严格性。这个B2 D计划将是一个 为我们的学生在中央谷寻求和获得博士学位的坚实基础。并建立职业生涯， 独立调查员，并在美国科学界担任领导职务。