Investing in the Future: Collaborative Research Experiences for Students and Teac

拟议的学生和教师合作研究经验（CREST）计划解决了克服吸引年轻学生到科学的问题所需的系统性变化，其次是他们预期进入研究和医疗保健职业。CREST计划将重点关注哈里斯堡（宾夕法尼亚州首府）地区的高中，这些高中拥有大量少数民族学生，目前他们在研究和医疗保健领域的代表性不足。 该计划将为精心挑选的9年级学生（5年共100名）提供连续三年的高中教育期间的夏季研究经验。前两个夏季会议（9日和10日之间和10日和11日等级）将作为一个基于探究的生物医学科学的介绍，并将导致在宾夕法尼亚州立大学医学院的研究实验室内的监督研究项目的性能11日和12日等级之间。 这些学生将由医学院的研究导师与附近的林肯大学（一所历史上的黑人大学）和两个已经建立的夏季本科生研究项目的本科生助教合作指导。 这些助教将进一步成为高中学生参与者的榜样。 拟议的CREST计划将同样关注高中学生和科学教师（5年内共有20名科学教师），通过暑期科学学院提供专业发展计划，教师将实验室经验纳入日常教学计划并获得研究生学分。 学生、高中教师和研究导师之间的同事关系将在整个学年中通过研讨会、基于参与CREST学生和教师的综合经验的高中新颖实验室练习以及惠特克中心的项目来维持。哈里斯堡市中心的科学与艺术中心。惠特克中心的计划将旨在庆祝学生和他们的老师的成就，并告知科学的进步和临床试验的关键作用的公众。 外部评估人员将比较CREST学生的成果措施与那些没有参加CREST计划的学生。 该计划代表了宾夕法尼亚州中南部学区，宾夕法尼亚州立大学医学院（实验室性能网站），宾夕法尼亚州立大学哈里斯堡首都学院（教师为重点的发展网站），林肯大学和几个社区为基础的组织，包括惠特克中心，关注科学教育的质量之间的持续合作。 CREST计划旨在激发高中生的兴趣和能力，特别是那些来自代表性不足的群体，追求科学事业。该计划为科学教师提供了通过更新内容和教学法来改善科学教学的机会。公众将了解生物医学和临床研究的进展，包括对研究道德和保护临床研究中的人类参与者的关注。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed Collaborative Research Experiences for Students and Teachers (CREST) program addresses systemic changes needed to overcome the problem of attracting young students to science, followed by their anticipated entry into research and healthcare careers. The CREST program will focus on Harrisburg (Pennsylvania state capital) area high schools with large populations of minority students who, at present, are underrepresented in the research and healthcare arenas. The program will provide carefully selected 9th grade students (a total of 100 for the 5 years) with summer research experiences during three consecutive years of their high school education. The first two summer sessions (between the 9th and 10th and the 10th and 11th grades) will serve as an introduction to inquiry-based biomedical science and will lead to the performance of a supervised research project within research laboratories at the Penn State College of Medicine between the 11th and 12th grades. These students will be guided by College of Medicine faculty research mentors working in collaboration with undergraduate student teaching assistants from both nearby Lincoln University (a Historically Black University) and from two already established summer undergraduate research programs at the College of Medicine. These teaching assistants will further serve as role models for the high school student participants. The proposed CREST program will focus equally on high school students and science teachers (total of 20 of the latter for the 5 year period) by providing professional development programs through Summer Science Academies in which the teachers will incorporate laboratory experiences into their everyday teaching programs and earn graduate credit. The collegial relationships among the students, their high school teachers, and the research mentors will be sustained throughout the academic year by seminars, novel laboratory exercises in the high schools based on the combined experiences of the participating CREST students and teachers, and programs at the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in downtown Harrisburg. The Whitaker Center programs will be designed to celebrate the achievements of the students and their teachers, and to inform the public of advances in science and the critical role of clinical trials. External evaluators will compare outcome measures of the CREST students with those of students not participating in the CREST program. This program represents a continuing collaboration among school districts in southcentral Pennsylvania, the Penn State College of Medicine (the laboratory performance site), Penn State Harrisburg Capital College (the teacher-focused development site), Lincoln University, and several community-based organizations, including the Whitaker Center, concerned about the quality of science education. The CREST program is designed to stimulate the interest and capacity of high school students, especially those from underrepresented groups, to pursue careers in science. The program provides opportunity for science teachers to improve science teaching by updating content and pedagogy. The public will be informed of advances in biomedical and clinical research, including the concern for research ethics and protection of human participants in clinical research.