Kids Seek Cure For Kids

孩子们为孩子们寻求治疗

• 批准号: 7847231
• 负责人: EMIL BOGENMANN
• 金额: $ 11.38万
• 依托单位: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7847231
• 关键词: Academia; Achievement; Age; American; Asians; Businesses; Career Choice; Child; Childhood; County; Development; Disadvantaged; Disease model; Educational workshop; Faculty; Future; Hand; Hispanics; Industry; Instruction; Knowledge; Laboratories; Laboratory Research; Learning; Los Angeles; Mentorship; Minority; Modeling; Population; Positioning Attribute; Recruitment Activity; Research Training; Resources; Schools; Science; Students; System; Testing; Underrepresented Minority; United States; case-based; college; experience; graduate student; high school; improved; lectures; programs; science education; socioeconomics; success

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The United States has become largely dependent on a foreign workforce; this is strikingly becoming truer in academia and business/industry, given that the underrepresented minority population in the U.S. continues to grow exponentially, and high school and college graduation rates for minority students fail to improve. By 2025, more than 50% of all American high school (HS) students will be the children of today's American minorities-of those, 75% will be Hispanic. Only approximately 50% of current Hispanic students graduate with a high school diploma, compared to nearly 90% of White and/or Asian students. Barriers to success are many, and include cultural and socioeconomic disadvantages; public school systems without the resources to build on their students' potential; and lack of educational, extracurricular opportunities that historically have been available to successful, motivated students from middle/upper class school districts or private schools. Our minority students are an untapped resource, and it is imperative that we begin focusing on their academic and personal success, as it directly impacts our nation's position in the current and future global economy. We hypothesize that scientific achievement of underrepresented minority students will improve if scientific knowledge is communicated to them in a relevant and stimulating context and is reinforced by hands on experience in a research laboratory. We will test this hypothesis with the following specific aims: 1) We will recruit student interns from Los Angeles County high schools and provide them with active research laboratory experience under the mentorship of highly successful research training faculties. 2) We will provide the interns with lectures that instruct scientific knowledge and fundamental principals of scientific inquiry using pediatric disease models (case-based instruction). 3) We will assess learning of the scientific subject and evaluate the educational and career choices of students following completion of the program.

描述(由申请人提供)： 美国已经变得在很大程度上依赖外国劳动力；鉴于美国未被充分代表的少数族裔人口继续呈指数级增长，而且少数族裔学生的高中和大学毕业率未能提高，这一点在学术界和工商界尤为明显。到2025年，超过50%的美国高中(HS)学生将是当今美国少数民族的孩子--其中75%将是西班牙裔。目前只有大约50%的拉美裔学生毕业时拥有高中文凭，相比之下，白人和/或亚裔学生的这一比例接近90%。取得成功的障碍很多，包括文化和社会经济方面的劣势；公立学校系统没有资源来发展学生的潜力；缺乏教育和课外机会，而这些机会历来都是来自中上阶层学区或私立学校的成功的、有进取心的学生所能获得的。我们的少数民族学生是一种尚未开发的资源，我们必须开始关注他们的学业和个人成功，因为这直接影响到我们国家在当前和未来全球经济中的地位。我们假设，如果在相关和激励的背景下向未被充分代表的少数族裔学生传授科学知识，并通过在研究实验室的亲身经历来加强他们的科学知识，他们的科学成就将会提高。我们将通过以下具体目标来检验这一假设：1)我们将从洛杉矶县高中招聘学生实习生，并在非常成功的研究培训教师的指导下为他们提供积极的研究实验室经验。2)我们将为实习生提供讲授科学知识和使用儿科疾病模型进行科学探究的基本原理的讲座(基于病例的教学)。3)我们将评估科学学科的学习情况，并在项目完成后评估学生的教育和职业选择。