Minority Initiative for Students and Teachers (MIST)

学生和教师少数群体倡议 (MIST)

• 批准号: 6857792
• 负责人: Mark S. Johnson
• 金额: $ 26.99万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MED/DENT OF NJ-NJ MEDICAL SCHOOL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-03 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6857792
• 关键词: African American; Hispanic Americans; Native Americans; adolescence (12-20); clinical research; education evaluation /planning; health science research potential; human subject; parents; science education; secondary schools; teacher

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Context: Minority under-representation in medical education, practice, and research remains a significant problem nationwide. Even though American students in general perform more poorly in science and math than do students of many other countries, the average science proficiency among black and Hispanic children is far below that of American white children. With American's changing demographics, poor and minority children must be provided with access and better opportunities to acquire strong science, research, and math backgrounds. Design: This is a five year educational program. The proposed program will support a new curriculum design that will utilize major clinical diseases affecting minority populations to interest and teach minority students about research and health careers. Each year of the grant will have one clinical focus that is important to the health care of this country: obesity, cancer prevention, asthma, hypertension, and coronary heart disease. Each fall the Curriculum Committee will develop the curriculum after a comprehensive needs assessment and evaluation of the previous year curriculum. The goal will be to teach anatomy, pathophysiology, epidemiology, genetics, behavior, pharmacology and research applications using these disease models to gain and hold the student's interest. Additionally, there will be programmatic offerings for middle and high school teachers and parents as they play a very significant role in the educational future of American children. Specific Aims: (1) To implement age-appropriate programs for urban underrepresented minority students (and other students with a demonstrated need) in grades 8-12 that strengthens: Domain-specific knowledge in health science, research and mathematics; domain-independent competencies necessary for academic and workplace success; and skills in higher order critical thinking and problem solving, (2) To promote awareness of and interest in careers in biological science, research and health professions among 8th and 12th graders from the greater Newark area, (3) To expand, for pre-college science teachers, the base of health-related knowledge, the practice of performance-based assessments, and the use of innovated teaching modalities, (4) To enhance parent's and involvement in their children's education by offering seminars/workshops that teach skills that will support their child's progress, and (5) To evaluate the effectiveness of the program in reaching its objectives by using a variety of assessment strategies. Settings: UMD-New Jersey Medical School and St. James Preparatory School in Newark, NJ. Participants: One hundred twenty five students will be recruited during the first year of the program. Middle and high school teachers will be recruited in years one through four of the program. Parents and/or legal guardians of the children who participate in the program.

描述（由申请人提供）： 少数民族在医学教育、实践和研究中的代表性不足仍然是全国范围内的一个重大问题。尽管美国学生在科学和数学方面的表现总体上比其他许多国家的学生差，但黑人和西班牙裔儿童的平均科学熟练程度远远低于美国白色儿童。随着美国人口结构的变化，必须为贫困和少数民族儿童提供更好的机会，以获得强大的科学，研究和数学背景。设计：这是一个为期五年的教育计划。拟议的计划将支持一个新的课程设计，将利用影响少数民族人口的主要临床疾病的兴趣，并教少数民族学生有关研究和健康事业。每年的拨款将有一个临床重点，这是重要的医疗保健，这个国家：肥胖，癌症预防，哮喘，高血压和冠心病。每年秋季，课程委员会将在对前一年的课程进行全面的需求评估和评估后制定课程。目标是教授解剖学，病理生理学，流行病学，遗传学，行为学，药理学和研究应用，使用这些疾病模型来获得和保持学生的兴趣。此外，还将为初中和高中教师和家长提供方案，因为他们在美国儿童的教育未来中发挥着非常重要的作用。具体目标：（1）为城市代表性不足的少数民族学生实施适合年龄的计划（和其他有明显需求的学生）在8-12年级，加强：在健康科学，研究和数学领域的特定知识;学术和工作场所成功所需的独立领域的能力;以及高阶批判性思维和解决问题的技能，（2）提高对生物科学职业的认识和兴趣，研究和卫生专业的8日和12年级学生从大纽瓦克地区，（3）扩大，为大学预科科学教师，健康相关的知识基础，基于绩效的评估的做法，并使用创新的教学模式，（4）通过举办研讨会/讲习班，教授支持孩子进步的技能，提高父母对孩子教育的参与程度，以及（5）通过使用各种评估策略，评估该方案在实现其目标方面的有效性。设置：UMD新泽西医学院和圣詹姆斯预备学校在纽瓦克，新泽西州。参加者：一百二十五名学生将在该计划的第一年招募。初中和高中教师将在该计划的第一到第四年招聘。参加该计划的儿童的父母和/或法律的监护人。