INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MIDDLE SCHOOL PROJECT

综合环境健康中学项目

• 批准号: 6656313
• 负责人: David L Eaton
• 金额: $ 25.45万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-30 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6656313
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); adult human (21+); education evaluation /planning; environmental health; health education; human subject; secondary schools; teacher; training level

The Integrated Environmental Health Middle School (IEHMS) Project is a collaboration between K-12 outreach experts and research faculty at the University of Washington's NIEHS Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health and the University of New Mexico's NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Developmental Research Center. This project builds upon the applicants' previous seven years of NIEHS-supported curriculum development and teacher training experiences. The central hypothesis is that implementation of the proposed IEHMS Project will result in increased student understanding of the environmental health sciences as well as improved performance in overall academic achievement, higher-level thinking and problem-solving skills, behavior, and attitudes. The seven-year goal of this project is to train educators in grades 6 through 8 to use the investigators' existing, as well as newly developed, materials to plan, implement, and assess projects that use Environmental Health Sciences as an Integrating Context (EHSIC) for learning. A major specific aim will be to assemble a working group of scientists, teachers, and community leaders to modify and assess the efficacy of Project Greenskate as a multi-disciplinary, integrative learning tool. Project Greenskate is the applicants' prototype, web-based, interdisciplinary Student- Centered, Problem-Based Learning exercise that was developed with previous NIEHS support. A second major specific aim will be to create the Health and Environment Activities Research Tool (HEART). This instructional development tool will guide teachers to identify, plan, implement, and assess their own EHSIC projects by providing them with outlines, checklists, concepts, and curriculum resources. A third major specific aim will be to develop, evaluate, and revise six model EHSIC modules using the HEART tools. All IEHMS materials will be distributed to teachers during an annual workshop. This workshop will be based on the NIEHS-supported Environmental Health for Educators workshop offered every year at the University of Washington since 1996. The workshop will include lectures on environmental health sciences topics by NIEHS Center faculty researchers, presentations by scientists and regulators, and hands-on training on the use of all project materials. Workshops will take place both in Washington State and New Mexico. Partner school districts in Washington include two school districts from northwestern Washington: Mukilteo (13,585 students, of which 3,019 are in Middle School) and Ferndale (5,209 students, of which 1,196 are in Middle School). Partner districts and schools in New Mexico include the Pojaoque School District (150 teachers; 1,980 K-12 students: 70% Hispanic, 15% Native American, 15% Anglo), the Espanola School District (5,000 students), and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (80 students/yr; 100% Native American). They will provide the unique opportunity to work with predominantly Native American and Hispanic student populations. With this consideration, all materials will be adapted for cultural appropriateness and assessed accordingly. Multiple assessment tools will be employed to determine the project's impact, including norm-referenced standardized test results, specially developed surveys, and qualitative data. Project impact on teachers' professional skills, self- efficacy perceptions, and job satisfaction will also be evaluated. All the project results and materials will be published and/or disseminated nationally and a Train-the-Trainer seminar will be conducted in the final year to further facilitate distribution of the developed model to other sites around the nation.

综合环境健康中学 (IEHMS) 项目是一个 K-12 外展专家与研究人员之间的合作 华盛顿大学 NIEHS 生态遗传学和环境中心 健康与新墨西哥大学 NIEHS 环境健康科学 发展研究中心。 该项目建立在申请人的 前七年 NIEHS 支持的课程开发和教师 培训经历。 中心假设是，实施 拟议的 IEHMS 项目将增加学生对 环境健康科学以及整体绩效的提高 学术成就、更高层次的思维和解决问题的能力， 行为和态度。 该项目的七年目标是培训 6 至 8 年级的教育工作者可以使用调查人员现有的以及 新开发的用于规划、实施和评估项目的材料 环境健康科学作为学习的整合背景（EHSIC）。 一个主要的具体目标是组建一个科学家工作组， 教师和社区领导修改和评估项目的功效 Greenskate 作为一种多学科、综合性学习工具。 项目 Greenskate 是申请人的原型，基于网络的跨学科学生- 与之前开发的以问题为中心的学习练习 NIEHS 支持。 第二个主要具体目标是创建健康和 环境活动研究工具（HEART）。 本次教学发展 工具将指导教师确定、计划、实施和评估他们自己的 EHSIC 项目，为他们提供大纲、清单、概念和 课程资源。 第三个主要具体目标是发展， 使用 HEART 工具评估和修改六个模型 EHSIC 模块。 所有IEHMS 材料将在年度研讨会期间分发给教师。 这 研讨会将基于 NIEHS 支持的环境健康 自此以来，华盛顿大学每年都会举办教育工作者研讨会 1996. 讲习班将包括环境健康科学讲座 NIEHS 中心教师研究人员的主题、科学家和 监管机构，以及有关使用所有项目材料的实践培训。 研讨会将在华盛顿州和新墨西哥州举行。 伙伴 华盛顿州的学区包括西北地区的两个学区 华盛顿：马科尔蒂奥（13,585 名学生，其中 3,019 名中学学生） 和 Ferndale（5,209 名学生，其中 1,196 名学生在中学）。 伙伴 新墨西哥州的地区和学校包括 Pojaoque 学区（150 教师； 1,980 名 K-12 学生：70% 西班牙裔、15% 美洲原住民、15% 盎格鲁人）， 埃斯帕诺拉学区（5,000 名学生）和西南印度 理工学院（80 名学生/年；100% 美洲原住民）。 他们会 提供与主要是美洲原住民和 西班牙裔学生群体。 考虑到这一点，所有材料都将 适应文化适当性并进行相应评估。 多种的 将采用评估工具来确定项目的影响，包括 参考常模的标准化测试结果、专门开发的调查，以及 定性数据。 项目对教师专业技能、自我评价的影响 效能认知和工作满意度也将得到评估。 所有的 项目成果和材料将在全国范围内出版和/或传播 最后一年将举办培训师培训研讨会，以进一步 促进将开发的模型分发到周围的其他站点 国家。