Research careers for Hispanic students: Testing the Multiple Worlds model

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案的总体目标是研究西班牙裔高中生在生物医学和行为科学方面追求职业生涯的动机，信念和行为的变化。该提案的主要创新包括在关键的教育阶段接触代表性不足的少数民族人口，在此背景下测试教育成就的重要社会科学理论（Dallan，Davison和Yu的“多个世界”框架）;以及应用纵向多站点混合方法设计，将产生比典型研究更丰富的定量和定性数据。“多重世界”框架假定学生同时在至少三个世界中行动，其特征是他们的学者，家庭和同龄人。我们的主要研究问题是问，Escheran的模型是否提供了描述和预测教育轨迹的能力，从而能够追求科学事业。该项目有三个具体目标：1。描述和比较动机的纵向轨迹，以追求生物医学/行为科学途径西班牙裔学生与其他种族的学生相比，在五个芝加哥高中。我们假设不同种族和不同教育项目的学生之间存在显着差异。2.要检查父母的知识和态度，在西班牙裔学生的生物医学/行为科学研究的职业生涯，并描述父母的特点和学生的轨迹之间的关联。我们假设，在西班牙裔学生的轨迹之间的差异将与父母的理解的科学工作的性质密切相关。3.研究学生的轨迹和他们的同龄人之间的社会网络关系。我们假设，学生将倾向于类似于他们的同龄人在他们的教育轨迹，甚至控制父母的特点，和强大的连接到同龄人将独立地促进或阻止科学教育（取决于星座的价值观在同龄人群体）。 公共卫生相关性：该项目通过研究理论为公共卫生做出贡献，这些理论提出了增加代表性不足的少数民族学生，特别是西班牙裔学生参与生物医学和行为科学研究的方法

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this proposal is to examine changes in motivation, beliefs, and behaviors related to pursuing careers in biomedical and behavioral science among Hispanic high school students. The proposal's key innovations include access to an underrepresented minority population at a critical educational stage, testing an important social scientific theory of educational achievement (Phelan, Davison, and Yu's "multiple worlds" framework) in this context; and application of a longitudinal multi-site mixed-methods design that will produce richer quantitative and qualitative data than typical studies. The "multiple worlds" framework posits that students act simultaneously in at least 3 worlds, characterized by their academics, their family, and their peers. Our primary research question asks whether Phelan's model provides the ability to describe and predict educational trajectories leading to the ability to pursue scientific careers. The project has three specific aims: 1. To describe and compare longitudinal trajectories of motivation to pursue biomedical/behavior science pathways among Hispanic students compared with students of other ethnicities at five Chicago high schools. We hypothesize significant differences among students of different ethnicities and in different educational programs. 2. To examine parental knowledge and attitudes toward careers in biomedical/behavioral science research among Hispanic students, and describe associations between parental characteristics and student trajectories. We hypothesize that differences in trajectories among Hispanic students will be strongly associated with parental understanding of the nature of scientific work. 3. To examine social-network relationships between students' trajectories and those of their peers. We hypothesize that students will tend to resemble their peers in their educational trajectories, even controlling for parental characteristics, and that strong connections to peers will independently facilitate or deter scientific education (depending on the constellation of values in the peer group). PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project contributes to public health by studying theories that suggest ways to increase the participation of underrepresented minority students, specifically Hispanic students, in careers in research in the biomedical and behavioral sciences