Development of Research And Writing Skills (DRAWS): A tool for broader assessment to enhance research and research training

研究和写作技能的发展（DRAWS）：一种用于更广泛评估以加强研究和研究培训的工具

• 批准号: 10393926
• 负责人: Luis Guillermo Carvajal Carmona
• 金额: $ 0.67万
• 依托单位: CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10393926
• 关键词: Research Training; Writing; research and development; skills; tool

Summary A Bridges to the Doctorate program between the two major Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) in California's Central Valley is proposed. This program will assist under-represented minority (URM) students from the California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) with completing a Master's program in the biomedical sciences before continuing and completing their Ph.D. program at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), a research-intensive institution. This proposal will build on major research themes, activities and facilities at the two institutions including Research Infrastructure in Minority Institutions Program (RIMI) at Fresno State, the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) at UC Davis. Faculty members from the Colleges of Science and Mathematics (CSM) at Fresno State and biomedical research focused graduate groups at UC Davis will create a highly interactive training program. The overall aim of the Fresno State Bridges to Doctorate (B2D) program is to increase the number of URM graduate students entering and earning doctoral degrees in biomedical sciences. The program will recruit five graduate students each year with potential interests in pursuing research as a career and provide individually designed academic and research training plans to each. The B2D program consists of the following specific goals: • Enhance educational capabilities by developing their ability to read and critically analyze scientific literature, especially peer-reviewed papers; • Develop the appreciation for and understanding of the scientific method by demonstrating the capacity to propose hypothesis-driven, experimental protocols with appropriate controls that solve problems in a logical, stepwise fashion; • Refine professional skill sets through multiple opportunities to practice their oral and written skills and to network with other peers; actively participate and present at national/international research conferences to improve identification as a researcher and increase self-efficacy and science identity. • Develop an understanding of and appreciation for their responsible conduct in research through supplemental responsible conduct in research (RCR) training course as well as for instructions on enhancing scientific reproducibility; • Strengthening and improving science literacy by providing additional writing instruction, mentorship, and grantsmanship skills that will result in direct benefits in critical and analytical thinking. Finally, • Provide summer research at research-intensive labs at UC Davis for the B2D students to integrate research experience that mirrors what they will experience in graduate school. The Program Directors from both campuses have gathered a team of Faculty Mentors, an Advisory Committee and staff members, who are committed to the successful development of the program. All components of the Fresno-Davis Bridges program will be rigorously evaluated by an ongoing evaluation process to assess the success of the program. Addressing our objectives will allow us to achieve our short- and long-range objectives, which are: • To ensure that 90% of the B2D Scholars submit a graduate school application, with half the students being accepted into graduate Ph.D. programs in biomedical sciences in the first five years of the grant (short-range); • Over the next decade we expect to maximize (80%) our B2D Scholars to join a Ph.D. program and pursue a career in biomedical research (long-range); and • Over the next ten years, create a culture to expand and enhance the biomedical science curriculum developed by the B2D-Scholars program by the institutionalization of these practices (long-range). The Fresno-Davis B2D program will support the Scholars and lay the essential groundwork required to face the rigors of graduate school education in a highly competitive atmosphere. This B2D program will be part of a firm foundation for our students in the Central Valley to seek and earn their Ph.D. and establish careers as independent investigators and assume leadership positions in American science.

概括 两个主要西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）之间的博士学位课程的桥梁 提出了加利福尼亚的中央山谷。该计划将协助代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生 来自加利福尼亚州立大学弗雷斯诺（弗雷斯诺州），完成了硕士课程 在继续并完成博士学位之前，生物医学科学。加州大学戴维斯分校的课程 （UC Davis），研究密集型机构。该建议将以主要的研究主题，活动和 这两个机构的设施，包括少数族裔机构计划（RIMI）的研究基础设施（RIMI） 弗雷斯诺州立大学，加州大学戴维斯分校综合癌症中心以及临床和转化科学中心 （CTSC）位于加州大学戴维斯分校。弗雷斯诺州立科学与数学学院（CSM）的教职员工 加州大学戴维斯分校以生物医学研究为重点的研究生组将创建一个高度互动的培训计划。 弗雷斯诺州桥的总体目的是博士学位（B2D）计划是增加数量 URM研究生在生物医学科学中进入并获得博士学位。该计划将招募 每年有五名研究生，潜在的兴趣从事研究并提供研究 每个人都为每个人设计了学术和研究培训计划。 B2D程序由 遵循特定目标： •通过发展其阅读和批判性分析科学的能力来增强教育能力 文学，尤其是同行评审的论文； •通过证明能力来发展对科学方法的欣赏和理解 提出具有假设驱动的实验方案，并具有适当的对照，以解决一个问题 逻辑，逐步时尚； •通过多种机会来完善专业技能，以练习他们的口头和书面技能以及 与其他同行建立联系；积极参与并参加国家/国际研究会议 提高研究人员的认同并提高自我有效和科学身份。 •通过 补充负责任的研究（RCR）培训课程以及有关指导 增强科学可重复性； •通过提供其他写作说明，Mentalship， 授予技巧将在关键和分析思维中带来直接利益。最后， •在UC Davis的研究密集型实验室提供夏季研究，供B2D学生整合 研究经验反映了他们在研究生中将经历的内容。 来自两个校园的计划主任都聚集了一支教师导师团队 委员会和工作人员，致力于成功制定该计划。全部 Fresno-Davis Bridges计划的组件将通过正在进行的评估进行严格评估 评估程序成功的过程。解决我们的目标将使我们能够实现短暂的 和远程目标，这是： •确保90％的B2D学者提交研究生院申请，其中一半的学生 被录取为研究生博士学位赠款的前五年生物医学科学计划 （短距离）; •在接下来的十年中，我们希望最大化（80％）我们的B2D学者将加入博士学位。程序和 从事生物医学研究的职业（远程）；和 •在接下来的十年中，建立一种文化来扩展和增强生物医学科学课程 由B2D-Scholars计划通过这些实践的制度化（远程）开发。 弗雷斯诺 - 戴维斯B2D计划将支持学者，并为面对 在竞争激烈的氛围中，研究生院教育的严格性。该B2D程序将成为 我们在中央山谷的学生的坚定基础寻求并获得博士学位。并建立职业为 独立的研究人员并在美国科学领域担任领导职务。