PROJECT DART (DRUG ABUSE RESEACH TEAMS)

描述：(申请人摘要) 中学妇女和少数民族学生及其老师 整个加利福尼亚州都将被选为机会 药物滥用研究领域的深入研究和独特的伙伴关系 与这一领域的实践科学家合作。将鼓励导师制，并 根据这一建议开发的；科学家、有前途的学生和 全身心投入，积极进取的老师。 该提议的活动包括：1)密集的暑期学院 让妇女和少数族裔中学生及其老师参与 以及行为和生物医学领域的执业科学家 科学，2)帮助研究所参与者进行行动研究 在他们的学校现场与他们的老师导师和来自 学生所在地区的科学家，以及3)支持学生 在当地开展研究，并参加全国大赛。 助学金的次要活动将包括深入讲授 研究过程，职业接触药物滥用研究领域，需要 卫生和科学教育改革努力之间的联系，以及 循序渐进的教学策略和内容知识改进 高中老师。被称为D.A.R.T.项目，或药物滥用研究 团队，该项目试图为女性和 少数民族有效地进入科学研究领域。研究是 明确这类关系的价值所在； 科学家-教师-学生，可以非常有效地产生积极影响 在科学领域取得进一步的成功。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Abstract) Secondary school women and minority students and their teachers from throughout the state of California will be selected for an opportunity for intensive study in the field of drug abuse research and a unique partnership with practicing scientists in the field. Mentorships will be encouraged and developed with this proposal; scientists, promising students and the involved, motivated teacher. The activities of the proposal include: 1) An intensive summer institute involving women and minority secondary students, along with their teachers and practicing scientists in the behavioral and biomedical fields of science, 2) Assistance for institute participants to perform action research at their school site with their teacher mentor and involvement from scientists in the students' local area, and 3) Support for students to present research in local area and enter it into a national competition. Secondary activities of the grant will include intensive instruction on the research process, career exposure to the drug abuse research field, needed connections between health and science education reform efforts, and progressive instructional strategy and content knowledge improvement for high school teachers. Called Project D.A.R.T., or Drug Abuse Research Teams, this project attempts to install important components for women and minorities effective entrance into the science research field. Research is clear that the value of this type of relationship; scientists-teacher-student, can be very effective as a positive influence for further success in the field of science.