Brain Healthy: Engaging Students in Citizen Science Brain Health and Wellness Investigations to Promote Data Science Literacy

大脑健康：让学生参与公民科学大脑健康和健康调查，以提高数据科学素养

• 批准号: 10450415
• 负责人: Ido Davidesco
• 金额: $ 27.11万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-05 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10450415
• 关键词: Affective; Area; Attitude; Award; Awareness; Biology; Brain; COVID-19 pandemic; Cognitive; Communities; Connecticut; Data; Data Analyses; Data Analytics; Data Collection; Data Science; Data Set; Databases; Educational Curriculum; Educational Materials; Ensure; Ethnic group; Evaluation; Exercise; Feedback; Funding; Goals; Grant; Health; Heart Rate; Interview; Intuition; Investigation; Leadership; Learning; Life Experience; Life Style; Measures; Mental Health; Mentors; Moods; Neurosciences; New York; New York City; Next Generation Science Standards; Personal Satisfaction; Physical Exercise; Principal Investigator; Process; Research; Research Project Grants; STEM career; School Teachers; Schools; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education; Self Efficacy; Stress; Structure; Students; Surveys; Time; Underrepresented Populations; Underrepresented Students; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Wellness Program; Work; Youth; base; biomedical data science; brain health; career; citizen science; cohort; community science; computerized; coronavirus disease; course development; data communication; data visualization; design; education research; experience; fitness; healthy lifestyle; high school; improved; interest; literacy; multidisciplinary; ninth grade; open source; pedagogy; peer coaching; programs; racial and ethnic; recruit; research study; scaffold; science education; skills; sleep quality; social media; stress management; student mentoring; success; teacher; teacher mentor; tenth grade; web interface; web platform

PROJECT SUMMARY Brain Healthy builds upon the success of BrainWaves, a prior NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA)-supported program, which has been successfully implemented in 25 public New York City schools, reaching over 600 students. Our new proposed program, Brain Healthy, is responsive to one of the new areas of high SEPA programmatic interest: providing students with access to research-generated data to prepare students for data science careers. Brain Healthy will be designed by a multidisciplinary team across the University of Connecticut and New York University in partnership with public school teachers in Connecticut and New York City that primarily serve students from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). It will be implemented as a month-long unit within a 9th/10th grade core biology course. Students in the program will first participate in a large-scale “citizen science” research project by taking a comprehensive survey (partially developed by students themselves) about their health and lifestyle practices. Students will also measure their heart rate with fitness trackers and complete a computerized cognitive (Stroop) task and mood survey. They will learn about brain plasticity and how positive (e.g., physical exercise) and negative (e.g., stress) life experiences impact our brain. With support from near-peer mentors (NPMs), students will then design data-driven investigations utilizing the entire de-identified citizen science database collected across all the participating schools, exploring questions, such as how sleep quality relates to mood and how fitness level associates with ability to focus. The Brain Healthy platform will guide students through these investigations by providing scaffolding in critical steps of the process. The program will culminate in a school-wide science fair, where students will share their findings with the wider school community. The program will be accompanied by professional development (PD) courses for teachers and NPMs prior to school implementation with additional just-in-time support. The main educational research questions are how does participation in a “citizen science” brain health and wellness program impact: 1) Students’ conceptual understanding of data analysis and brain plasticity, and their attitudes toward STEM; 2) Teachers’ self-efficacy in facilitating data-driven student investigations; 3) NPMs’ mentoring ability and intent to persist in STEM. Three cohorts of 10 teachers will be recruited, each participating for three years, with the first year occurring prior to the Brain Healthy PD course (serving as a well-matched comparison). Across the 5- year project, ~1500 students are expected to participate in Brain Healthy. Project evaluation will utilize pre- and post-program surveys, semi-structured interviews, and classroom observations.

项目摘要 Brain Healthy建立在BrainWaves的成功基础上，BrainWaves是先前的NIH科学教育合作奖 （SEPA）支持的计划，该计划已成功地在25个公共纽约市实施 学校，超过600名学生。我们新提出的计划，大脑健康，是响应之一， 高SEPA计划利益的新领域：为学生提供获得研究产生的 数据，为学生的数据科学职业做好准备。Brain Healthy将由多学科设计 康涅狄格大学和纽约大学的团队与公立学校合作 康涅狄格州和纽约市的教师，主要为来自代表性不足的学生提供服务， 科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）的种族/民族群体。将 作为9/10年级核心生物学课程中为期一个月的单元实施。该计划的学生 我将首先参加一个大型的“公民科学”研究项目， （部分由学生自己开发）关于他们的健康和生活方式的做法。学生也将 用健身追踪器测量他们的心率，完成计算机化认知（Stroop）任务， 情绪调查他们将了解大脑的可塑性以及其积极性（例如，体育锻炼）和消极的 (e.g.,生活经历会影响我们的大脑。在近同侪导师（NPM）的支持下，学生 然后，将利用整个去身份化的公民科学数据库设计数据驱动的调查 在所有参与学校收集，探索问题，如睡眠质量如何与 情绪以及健康水平如何与专注能力相关联。大脑健康平台将指导学生 通过在工艺的关键步骤中提供支架来进行这些研究。该计划将 在全校范围内的科学博览会中达到高潮，学生们将与更广泛的学校分享他们的发现 社区该计划将伴随着教师的专业发展（PD）课程 和国家预防机制，并提供额外的及时支持。 主要的教育研究问题是如何参与“公民科学”的大脑健康 和健康计划的影响：1）学生对数据分析和大脑可塑性的概念理解， 2）教师在促进数据驱动的学生学习中的自我效能感 调查; 3）NPM的指导能力和坚持STEM的意图。 将招募三批10名教师，每批参加三年，第一年 发生在脑健康PD课程之前（作为匹配良好的比较）。在5- 一年的项目，约1500名学生预计将参加大脑健康。项目评价将利用 项目前和项目后的调查、半结构化访谈和课堂观察。