Critical Appraisal to Improve Neuroscience Education (CAINE)

改进神经科学教育的批判性评估（CAINE）

• 批准号: 8035974
• 负责人: MICHAEL J. LICHTENSTEIN
• 金额: $ 25.49万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-04-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8035974
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Science Education Drug Abuse Partnership Award (SEDAPA) application seeks to create, evaluate, and disseminate new teaching materials centered on neuroscience and the biology of drug abuse and addiction. Entitled Critical Appraisal to Improve Neuroscience Education (CAINE), this project will take place in the context of teacher professional development. Teacher and scientist teams will adapt principles of critical appraisal, a method for evaluating published scientific reports, to create plain language versions and make neuroscience more accessible to their students. The core content of this proposal utilizes information from neuroscience translational and patient-oriented clinical research as examples to create lessons to effectively teach science, math, technology, and health principles at the middle school level. The Teacher Enrichment Initiatives (TEI) Program is a growing interdisciplinary partnership between the scientists of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) and educators from San Antonio, TX. The TEI Program has produced a set of freely available classroom-ready instructional materials that meet the NIDA SEDAPA overall goal `to provide public education and outreach related to NIH- funded research to a variety of audiences, including K-12 students.' Through our scientist-educator partnerships, we propose to develop and evaluate the innovative CAINE Program to enhance neuroscience and biology of drug abuse and addiction knowledge among middle school teachers and students. Novice science teachers (1-5 years of classroom experience) from majority minority school districts will be recruited to participate. Expected improvements in science literacy will emphasize understanding the processes of biomedical research and the ability to evaluate the quality of research studies reported in the media. To meet the NIDA goal, the CAINE Project set three specific aims. Aim A develops new educational materials that adapt concepts from critical appraisal of the literature to translate research reports into forms that middle school students may evaluate. Using tools created by the scientist-educator teams, students will appraise plain language versions of research articles and compare them to accompanying media reports to ascertain accuracy of science reporting. These educational materials will increase student knowledge about NIDA focus areas, improve science literacy as assessed by student ability to search for and evaluate research reports, improve student knowledge about biomedical research and study design, and change attitudes toward science. Aim B utilizes our partnerships to qualitatively and quantitatively assess teacher professional development through measures of self-efficacy, classroom observations, and ability to create and evaluate new teaching materials, career trajectory, and continuing professional education. Aim C disseminates the curriculum through the website, conference presentations, and published findings in peer-reviewed journals. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE STATEMENT: The CAINE Project's main goal is to provide new, effective teaching materials based on examples from the neurosciences and the biology of drug abuse and addiction. Scientists will work with teachers to create the new lessons; the teachers will improve their ability to instruct their students. Middle school students who use CAINE Project lessons will learn more about science, math, health, and the methods used to conduct research and will be better informed to make decisions for maintaining and improving their own health.

该科学教育药物滥用合作奖（SEDAPA）旨在创建，评估和传播以神经科学和药物滥用和成瘾生物学为中心的新教材。该项目名为“改善神经科学教育的批判性评价”（CAINE），将在教师专业发展的背景下进行。教师和科学家团队将采用批判性评价的原则，这是一种评估已发表的科学报告的方法，以创建简单的语言版本，并使学生更容易获得神经科学。该提案的核心内容利用来自神经科学转化和以患者为导向的临床研究的信息作为例子，创建课程，以有效地教授中学水平的科学，数学，技术和健康原则。教师充实计划（TEI）是德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥健康科学中心（UTHSCSA）的科学家和来自德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥的教育工作者之间不断发展的跨学科伙伴关系。TEI计划制作了一套免费的课堂教学材料，符合NIDA SEDAPA的总体目标，即“向包括K-12学生在内的各种受众提供与NIH资助的研究相关的公共教育和宣传”。“通过我们的科学家和教育工作者的伙伴关系，我们建议开发和评估创新的CAINE计划，以提高中学教师和学生对药物滥用和成瘾知识的神经科学和生物学。将招募来自多数少数民族学区的新科学教师（1-5年的课堂经验）参加。科学素养的预期提高将强调理解生物医学研究的过程和评估媒体报道的研究质量的能力。为了实现NIDA的目标，CAINE项目设定了三个具体目标。目标A开发新的教育材料，从文献的批判性评价中改编概念，将研究报告转化为中学生可以评估的形式。使用由科学家教育工作者团队创建的工具，学生将评估研究文章的普通语言版本，并将其与伴随的媒体报道进行比较，以确定科学报道的准确性。这些教育材料将增加学生对NIDA重点领域的知识，提高科学素养，通过学生搜索和评估研究报告的能力进行评估，提高学生对生物医学研究和研究设计的知识，并改变对科学的态度。目标B利用我们的合作伙伴关系，通过自我效能，课堂观察，以及创建和评估新教材，职业轨迹和继续专业教育的能力的措施，定性和定量评估教师专业发展。Aim C通过网站、会议演示以及在同行评审期刊上发表的研究结果来传播课程。公共卫生相关声明：CAINE项目的主要目标是根据神经科学和药物滥用和成瘾生物学的例子提供新的有效的教学材料。科学家将与教师合作，创造新的课程;教师将提高他们指导学生的能力。使用CAINE项目课程的中学生将更多地了解科学，数学，健康以及用于进行研究的方法，并将更好地了解如何做出维护和改善自身健康的决定。