ION/Teach: A Summer Research Immersion for High School Students and Teachers

ION/Teach：高中生和教师的暑期研究沉浸式活动

• 批准号: 8519891
• 负责人: Geert J. De Vries
• 金额: $ 11.21万
• 依托单位: GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-05 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8519891
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Anxiety; Behavioral Research; Biomedical Research; Clinic; Clinical Research; Communication; Communities; Coupled; Development; Development Plans; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Effectiveness; Environment; Ethics; Family; Friends; Future; Immersion Investigative Technique; Individual; Institutes; Instruction; International; Knowledge; Laboratory Research; Lead; Learning; Measures; Mental Health; Mentors; Methods; Monitor; Neurosciences; Neurosciences Research; Outcome; Outcome Assessment; Participant; Program Evaluation; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Rewards; School Teachers; Schools; Science; Scientist; Self Efficacy; Social Network; Students; Testing; Translating; Universities; Visit; Work; base; career; college; design; eleventh grade; experience; follow-up; health application; high school; improved; instrument; middle school; programs; public health relevance; research data dissemination; science education; skills; success; symposium; teacher

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Institute On Neuroscience Summer Research Immersion. Engaging outstanding high school students in authentic and rewarding laboratory research may attract them to research careers. An intensive summer research experience provides an ideal environment for students to experience hands-on, inquiry-based science learning, which will likely enhance their content knowledge, technical skills, and confidence in their ability to conduct scientific research (scientific research self-efficacy). In turn, science elf-efficacy predicts intent to persist in science-related academic and career paths. Likewise for high school teachers, participating in summer research may improve knowledge, skills, and teaching efficacy, ultimately affecting commitment to teaching and retention in teaching careers. Moreover, by translating research experiences into inquiry-based learning opportunities for future students, teachers can exponentially increase the distribution of knowledge and skills acquired in a summer program. Thus, we will facilitate integration of students and teachers into neuroscience research teams through our program called ION/Teach. Our first aim is to engage high school students and teachers in an intensive summer research program, called the Institute on Neuroscience & Teaching (ION/Teach). A diverse group of students and teachers will start the summer with a week-long seminar on basic neuroscience concepts and methods, then engage in seven weeks of mentored lab research with active investigators at metro-Atlanta universities. Weekly professional development workshops will focus on topics such as scientific communication, college prep, and ethical conduct of research. Teacher participants will translate their summer research into standards-based lesson plans. The summer research experience will culminate in a research symposium. Our second aim is to use the ION/Teach program as a basis to test the hypothesis that participation in authentic laboratory research can improve externally demonstrable research skills (e.g. neuroscience content knowledge, competency at the bench or in the clinic, and scientific communication), and/or internal constructs associated with success in science or teaching careers (e.g. research or teaching self-efficacy, low science anxiety, science identity). Beyond individual outcomes for participants, the effectiveness of lesson plan development by the teacher participants will be monitored by assessment instruments that probe student learning outcomes in their classrooms. This research will fill a gap in current knowledge about how best to prepare young people to help address current biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs. For teachers, our results will also help identify ways to enhance retention in science classrooms. Ultimately, this project will produce not only students and teachers with research skills and dispositions toward successful careers, but also education research data for dissemination to the international science education community.

描述（由申请人提供）：神经科学研究所夏季浸入式研究。 让优秀的高中生参与真实且有益的实验室研究可能会吸引他们从事研究职业。暑期强化研究经历为学生体验实践性、探究性的科学学习提供了理想的环境，这可能会增强他们的内容知识、技术技能和对开展科学研究能力的信心（科学研究自我效能）。反过来，科学自我效能预测了坚持与科学相关的学术和职业道路的意图。同样，对于高中教师来说，参加暑期研究可以提高知识、技能和教学效率，最终影响对教学的投入和在教学生涯中的保留。此外，通过将研究经验转化为未来学生的探究式学习机会，教师可以成倍地增加在暑期课程中获得的知识和技能的分配。因此，我们将通过我们的 ION/Teach 项目促进学生和教师融入神经科学研究团队。 我们的首要目标是让高中生和教师参与一项名为神经科学与教学研究所 (ION/Teach) 的强化夏季研究项目。不同的学生和教师群体将在暑假开始时举办为期一周的关于基本神经科学概念和方法的研讨会，然后与亚特兰大都会大学的积极研究人员一起进行七周的指导实验室研究。每周的专业发展研讨会将重点关注科学传播、大学预科和研究道德行为等主题。教师参与者将把他们的夏季研究转化为基于标准的课程计划。夏季研究经历将在研究研讨会中达到高潮。 我们的第二个目标是使用 ION/Teach 计划作为基础来检验以下假设：参与真实的实验室研究可以提高外部可证明的研究技能（例如神经科学内容知识、实验室或临床能力以及科学沟通）和/或与科学或教学职业成功相关的内部结构（例如研究或教学自我效能、低科学焦虑、科学认同）。除了参与者的个人成果之外， 教师参与者制定课程计划的有效性将通过评估学生在课堂上的学习成果的工具进行监测。这项研究将填补当前关于如何最好地帮助年轻人做好准备以帮助满足当前生物医学、行为和临床研究需求的知识空白。对于教师来说，我们的结果也将有助于找到提高科学课堂保留率的方法。最终，该项目不仅将培养具有研究技能和成功职业倾向的学生和教师，还将培养教育研究数据，以便向国际科学教育界传播。