UQUEST (Questioning, Understanding, Experiencing, Scientific Thinking)

项目摘要 QUEST（提问、理解、体验和科学思维）项目汇集了 研究人员和一个青年发展机构，为经济上处于不利地位的少数民族青年提供服务， 创新努力，使小学年龄的少数民族儿童参与科学，并解决国家的需要 培养多样性，为下一代做好准备，以满足生物医学、行为学和临床研究的需要。 美国的需要。 该项目旨在利用儿童的好奇心和他们作为“自然人”的固有能力， investigators.“总体目标是提高服务不足的小学生的科学相关能力， 利用他们感兴趣的机会，并与他们自己的健康和福祉有关， 激发对科学和与健康相关的科学事业的兴趣，培养精明的年轻消费者， 科学谁已经获得的技能，了解科学在课堂内外。这将是 通过开发和实施以鼓励科学实践为起点的课程来实现 提出问题，并将重点放在让孩子们在学习中回答这些问题的方法上 一个吸引和激励他们的环境。 具体目标是：1）为2 - 5年级学生制定丰富的课程，促进与科学有关的 能力和激发对科学和健康的兴趣; 2）增加学生的知识 科学方法，提高他们学习科学的自我效能，激发好奇心，提高认识 对科学和健康职业道路感兴趣; 3）在随机对照试验中调查 在多大程度上，旨在通过促进问 问题有助于小学生获得科学概念和方法的知识， 自我效能感、好奇心和对科学的兴趣; 4）广泛传播评估的项目结果 向全球卫生研究人员、非正式科学教育工作者和正式科学教育工作者提供科学和研究成果， 科学教育工作者和K-12研究社区。 评估计划将记录QUEST课程的影响。严格的随机 对照试验将提供最好的解决科学教育需求的战略洞察力， 少数群体儿童在科学和健康相关的探索中代表性不足。

Project Summary The QUEST (Questioning, Understanding, Experiencing, and Scientific Thinking) project brings together researchers and a youth development agency, serving economically disadvantaged minority youth, in an innovative effort to engage elementary school aged minority children in science and address the national need to cultivate diversity in preparing the next generation to meet the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs of the United States. This project is designed to capitalize on the inquisitiveness of children and their innate capacity as `natural investigators.' The overall goal is to enhance underserved elementary students' science-related competencies, to take advantage of opportunities that are interesting for them and relevant to their own health and wellness, to motivate interest in science and health-related science careers, and nurture astute young consumers of science who have acquired the skills to learn about science inside and outside the classroom. This will be accomplished by developing and implementing a curriculum that starts with encouraging the science practice of asking questions and will focus on the methods that allow children to answer those questions in a learning environment that engages and stimulates them. The specific objectives are 1) to develop a rich curriculum for 2nd-5th graders that promotes science-related competencies and motivates interest in science and in health and wellness; 2) to increase students' knowledge of science methods, improve their self-efficacy in learning science, stimulate curiosity, and increase awareness of and interest in science and health career pathways; 3) to investigate in a randomized controlled trial the extent that strategies designed to enhance science engagement and competencies by promoting asking questions contribute to gains in elementary school students' knowledge of scientific concepts and methods, self-efficacy, curiosity, and interest in science; and 4) to broadly disseminate the evaluated program results and research findings to the global community of health researchers, informal science educators and formal science educators, and the K-12 research community. The evaluation plan will document the impact of the QUEST curriculum. The rigorous randomized controlled trial will provide insight into strategies that best address the science education needs of underrepresented minority children in their science and health-related quests.