In-school Internships for Students and Teachers in Under-Served Schools

为服务不足的学校的学生和教师提供校内实习

• 批准号: 8496339
• 负责人: Debra Lynn Yourick
• 金额: $ 24.25万
• 依托单位: WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-15 至 2019-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8496339
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This SEPA application from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research seeks to create and implement 20 novel hands-on, inquiry-centered activities, specifically aligned with the curricular indicators, in a General Biology course in higly disadvantaged high schools, beginning with Northwestern High School, in Prince George's County, Maryland. The biology modules will be taught by near-peer mentors, well-trained college students, to comprehensive general biology students, those deemed unprepared in terms of college preparation in math and science, from mostly under-represented groups in scientific professions. The proposed program outlined in this application seeks to perform efficacy evaluations through attitude surveys and specific task- based assessments, of this in-classroom intervention. The hands-on activities and near-peer mentor training materials will be available on a Wiki further developed through this project. Moreover, many of these inquiry-based activities will utilize available apps on smart phones for their classroom implementation. The hypothesis is that near-peer mentors - well-trained, often minority college students in biology and biomedical programs at area colleges and universities or recently graduated from them - can improve the attitudes and concept learning of students in a 10th grade general biology course in Maryland. This study will also evaluate high school assessments from this cohort of students from this high school with a paired, demographically matched high school in Prince George's County. Dissemination of the materials and program will be accomplished in the paired school where intervention did not occur, but in a subsequent year of 10th grade General Biology students. Additional schools will be involved in dissemination in Prince George's County Public Schools. The Specific Aims are as follows: * To provide in-school, in-classroom internships for general biology students through weekly investigations/mentoring provided by college interns (termed near-peer mentors). o Approximately 20 original inquiry investigations will be developed to reflect authentic research and provide students with practical applications. ? The investigations will reinforce the six expectations or concepts of biology required by Maryland's High School Assessments. o Proposed Curriculum for this Proposal: Serial Dilutions, Molarity and Normality; Bacteriophages; Eubacteria; Fungi; Tetrahymena - Eukaryotes; Robotics in Biomedicine * To provide underserved students in selected Prince George's County high schools with opportunities to practice science through learning fundamental laboratory skills and doing investigations with scientific methodology that encourage thoughtful analysis of their data and critical reflection on its meaning. o The laboratory skills become increasingly complex to parallel students growing conceptual understanding from the investigations with growing technical abilities. o Smart phones and tablets with scientific apps will be used during experimentation. * To support undergraduates and recent post-baccalaureates (near-peer mentors) in a joint research and education internship. o Near-peer mentors mature in technical skills, laboratory management abilities, and research design proficiencies while simultaneously mentoring secondary students and improving their own oral and written communication skills. o A Wiki resource will be created/augmented as a resource for these activities. * To give classroom teachers the opportunity to learn innovative strategies for uniting scientific concepts with laboratory investigations and their accompanying process and skills. o The Wiki resource site with all available activities created under this project will be available to teachers.

描述（由申请人提供）：沃尔特里德陆军研究所的SEPA申请旨在创建和实施20种新颖的动手，以探究为中心的活动，特别是与课程指标相一致，在高度弱势高中的普通生物学课程中，从马里兰州乔治王子县的西北高中开始。生物学模块将由近同行的导师，训练有素的大学生，全面的普通生物学学生，那些被认为在大学准备在数学和科学方面没有准备，从大多数代表性不足的群体在科学专业。本申请中概述的拟议计划旨在通过态度调查和基于特定任务的评估对这种课堂干预进行有效性评估。实践活动和近同行导师培训材料将在通过该项目进一步开发的维基上提供。此外，许多这些基于调查的活动将利用智能手机上的可用应用程序进行课堂实施。 假设是，在马里兰州的一门10年级普通生物学课程中，近同龄人导师--受过良好训练的，通常是地区学院和大学生物学和生物医学专业的少数民族大学生，或者是最近从这些学院和大学毕业的学生--可以改善学生的态度和概念学习。这项研究还将评估来自这所高中的学生与乔治王子县一所配对的人口统计学匹配的高中的高中评估。材料和方案的传播将在配对的学校完成，那里没有发生干预，但在随后的一年10年级的普通生物学学生。更多的学校将参与在乔治王子县公立学校的传播。 具体目标如下： * 通过大学实习生（称为近同行导师）提供的每周调查/指导，为普通生物学学生提供校内，课堂实习。 O 将开发约20个原始调查，以反映真实的研究，并为学生提供实际应用。 ? 这些调查将加强马里兰州高中评估所要求的生物学的六个期望或概念。 O 本提案的拟议课程：系列稀释，摩尔浓度和正常;噬菌体;真细菌;真菌;四膜虫-真核生物;生物医学中的机器人技术 * 为选定的乔治王子县高中的学生提供机会，通过学习基本的实验室技能和科学方法进行调查，鼓励对数据进行深思熟虑的分析，并对其意义进行批判性反思，从而实践科学。 O 实验室技能变得越来越复杂，以使学生从不断增长的技术能力的调查中获得越来越多的概念理解。 O 实验期间将使用带有科学应用程序的智能手机和平板电脑。 * 在联合研究和教育实习中支持本科生和最近的学士后（近同行导师）。 O 近同行导师成熟的技术技能，实验室管理能力，研究设计专业，同时指导中学生，提高自己的口头和书面沟通技巧。 O 将创建/扩充一个Wiki资源，作为这些活动的资源。 * 使课堂教师有机会学习将科学概念与实验室调查及其伴随过程和技能相结合的创新策略。 O 教师可以使用维基资源网站，其中包括在该项目下创建的所有可用活动。