Kids Seek Cure For Kids

孩子们为孩子们寻求治疗

• 批准号: 7795807
• 负责人: EMIL BOGENMANN
• 金额: $ 17.8万
• 依托单位: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7795807
• 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）： 美国在很大程度上依赖外国劳动力；鉴于美国代表性不足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，这种情况在学术界和商业/工业中变得尤为明显。到 2025 年，超过 50% 的美国高中 (HS) 学生将是当今美国少数族裔的孩子，其中 75% 将是西班牙裔。目前，只有约 50% 的西班牙裔学生毕业时获得高中文凭，而白人和/或亚裔学生的这一比例接近 90%。成功的障碍有很多，其中包括文化和社会经济劣势；公立学校系统没有资源来发挥学生的潜力；缺乏教育和课外机会，而这些机会历来是为来自中/高年级学区或私立学校的成功、积极的学生提供的。我们的少数族裔学生是未开发的资源，我们必须开始关注他们的学术和个人成功，因为这直接影响我们国家在当前和未来全球经济中的地位。我们假设，如果在相关和刺激的背景下向少数族裔学生传达科学知识，并通过研究实验室的实践经验来加强科学知识，那么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募实习生，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利用儿科疾病模型教授科学知识和科学探究基本原理的讲座（案例教学）。 3) 我们将评估科学科目的学习，并评估学生完成课程后的教育和职业选择。