Project ACE -- ACtion for Equity: A BUILDing SCHOLARS Pipeline

ACE 项目——公平行动：建立学者管道

• 批准号: 9975377
• 负责人: Thomas Boland
• 金额: $ 27万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS EL PASO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-10 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9975377
• 关键词: Academic achievement; Active Learning; Area; Behavioral Research; Behavioral Sciences; Biomedical Research; Clinical Research; Clinical Sciences; Communities; Complement; Development; Economically Deprived Population; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Endowment; Engineering; English Learner; Environment; Exposure to; Faculty; Family; Fellowship Program; Fostering; Funding; Future Teacher; Goals; Grant; Growth; Health; High School Faculty; High School Student; Hispanics; Infrastructure; Instruction; Laboratories; Learning; Literature; Mathematics; Mentors; Mentorship; Minority; New Mexico; Outcome; Performance; Preparation; Readiness; Research; Research Activity; Resources; Scholarship; Science; Self Efficacy; Socialization; Students; Talents; Teacher Professional Development; Technology; Texas; Time; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; Underrepresented Students; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Work; Writing; base; career; career awareness; college; curriculum enhancement; disadvantaged student; eighth grade; expectation; experience; graduate student; high school; improved; innovation; interest; member; peer coaching; programs; research and development; role model; science teacher; skills; social; summer research; symposium; teacher; tutoring; undergraduate student

PROJECT SUMMARY Project ACE (ACtion for Equity: A BUILDing SCHOLARS Pipeline) proposes to create a pipeline of academically and socially prepared Hispanic students from three economically disadvantaged high schools in Far West Texas and Southern New Mexico who will pursue undergraduate majors and eventually careers in biomedical science research. Drawing on The University of Texas at El Paso's (UTEP) BUILDing SCHOLARS (Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity: Southwest Consortium of Health-Oriented education Leaders and Research Scholars) grant and couched in Johnson and Bozeman's (2012) asset bundles framework, Project ACE is unique because it exposes students to interdisciplinary biomedical research at the high school level; incorporates their teachers in research experiences; and engages students' families in their academic and research skills growth. The proposal seeks to accomplish its goal of increasing diversity in the biomedical sciences through creating a pipeline of prepared Hispanic high school students by: (1) enhancing their high school teachers' research skills and knowledge of careers in biomedical research through participation in mentored summer research experiences; (2) fostering a culture of high academic achievement amongst high school students through rigorous classroom instruction using research-infused curriculum that will be complemented by tutoring, SAT/ACT preparation and résumé writing; and (3) developing a research culture for high school students, where high school students will be engaged in research activities. High school students will be socialized into science through yearly symposia, and interaction with near-peer mentors, graduate student tutors and UTEP faculty members who will serve as research mentors. This entails a multi-tiered mentoring approach which involves research to be performed at both the student's high school as well as at UTEP. By engaging in research at the high school level, we expect to see increased science identity and research self-efficacy in the participating students; improved research skills and increased interest in biomedical careers. By fostering a culture of high academic achievement, we expect that participating students will become more competitive applicants for merit-based scholarship opportunities at the postsecondary level and be more prepared for the biomedical research workforce. By involving high school teachers in contemporary biomedical research and infusing research and active learning principles into high school curriculum, we expect their students to be more engaged in learning, more excited by biomedical research, and more likely to pursue biomedical majors as undergraduates. This proposal is significant because it will leverage BUILDing SCHOLARS and NIH-funded programs at UTEP in order to further contribute to the diversification of the biomedical research workforce.

项目概要 ACE 项目（公平行动：建立学者管道）建议创建一条管道 来自三所经济困难高中的西班牙裔学生在学术和社会方面做好了准备 德克萨斯州远西和新墨西哥州南部将攻读本科专业并最终在 生物医学科学研究。借鉴德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校 (UTEP) 的学者建筑 （建设导致多元化的基础设施：西南健康教育领袖联盟和 研究学者）资助并采用 Johnson 和 Bozeman（2012）的资产捆绑框架项目 ACE 的独特之处在于它让学生在高中阶段接触跨学科生物医学研究； 将他们的老师纳入研究经验；并让学生的家庭参与他们的学业和 研究技能的增长。该提案旨在实现增加生物医学多样性的目标 通过以下方式建立培养西班牙裔高中生的渠道：(1) 提高他们的高中水平 学校教师通过参与生物医学研究的研究技能和职业知识 指导暑期研究经验； (2) 培育高学术成就的文化 学校学生通过严格的课堂教学，使用研究型课程， 辅以辅导、SAT/ACT 准备和简历写作； (3) 发展研究文化 高中生，高中生将在那里从事研究活动。高中生 将通过年度研讨会以及与近等同行导师、研究生的互动，将其社会化为科学 学生导师和 UTEP 教职人员将担任研究导师。这需要一个多层次的 指导方法，涉及在学生的高中和学校进行的研究 UTEP。通过参与高中水平的研究，我们期望看到科学认同和 研究参与学生的自我效能感；提高研究技能并增加兴趣 生物医学职业。通过培养高学术成就的文化，我们期望参与的学生 将成为高等教育择优奖学金机会的更有竞争力的申请人 并为生物医学研究人员做好更充分的准备。通过让高中教师参与 当代生物医学研究并将研究和主动学习原则融入高中 课程中，我们希望他们的学生能够更加投入学习，对生物医学研究更加兴奋， 并且更有可能在本科阶段攻读生物医学专业。这项提议意义重大，因为它将 利用 UTEP 的 BUILDing SCHOLARS 和 NIH 资助的项目，进一步为 生物医学研究队伍的多元化。