UQUEST (Questioning, Understanding, Experiencing, Scientific Thinking)

项目摘要 Quest(提问、理解、体验和科学思考)项目将 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族裔青年提供服务 创新努力，让小学适龄少数民族儿童参与科学，满足国家需求 培养下一代的多样性，以满足生物医学、行为和临床研究 美国的需要。 这个项目旨在利用儿童的好奇心和他们天生的能力。 调查人员说。总体目标是提高贫困小学生的科学相关能力， 为了利用他们感兴趣并与他们自己的健康和健康相关的机会， 激发人们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 掌握了在课堂内外学习科学知识的技能的学生。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 并将重点放在让孩子在学习中回答这些问题的方法上 吸引和刺激他们的环境。 具体目标是1)为2-5年级学生开发丰富的课程，促进与科学有关的 培养和激发学生对科学和健康的兴趣；2)增加学生的知识 学习科学方法，提高学习科学的自我效能感，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 旨在通过促进提问来提高科学参与度和能力的战略 问题有助于提高小学生对科学概念和方法的认识， 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 和研究成果提供给全球健康研究人员、非正式科学教育工作者和正式 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。严格的随机化 对照试验将提供对最好地满足以下科学教育需求的策略的洞察 在与科学和健康有关的任务中，少数族裔儿童的代表性不足。

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.