UQUEST (Questioning, Understanding, Experiencing, Scientific Thinking)

UQUEST（提问、理解、体验、科学思维）

• 批准号: 10207670
• 负责人: Patrice Geralyn Saab
• 金额: $ 27万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CORAL GABLES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-15 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10207670
• 关键词: Address; African American; Arts; Awareness; Behavioral Research; Biomedical Research; Career Choice; Child; Clinical Research; Collaborations; Communities; Community Health; Competence; Complement; Curiosities; Development; Diverse Workforce; Economically Deprived Population; Education Projects; Educational Activities; Educational Curriculum; Evaluation; Foundations; Goals; Haitian; Health; Health Services Accessibility; Health behavior; Heart; Hispanics; Knowledge; Learning; Methods; Minority; Museums; National Research Council; New York; Next Generation Science Standards; Outcome; Physical activity; Psychology; Public Health; Randomized Controlled Trials; Research; Research Personnel; School-Age Population; Science; Science Enrichment; Scientific Inquiry; Self Efficacy; Students; Thinking; Training; Underrepresented Minority; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Work; Youth; career; college; curriculum enhancement; design; education research; educational atmosphere; elementary school; exhibitions; experience; health disparity; healthy lifestyle; improved; innovation; insight; interest; minority children; next generation; nutrition; patient-clinician communication; peer coaching; programs; research and development; satisfaction; science education; science museum; science teacher; skills; stress management

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.

项目摘要 任务（质疑，理解，体验和科学思维）项目汇集了 研究人员和一个青年发展局，为经济不利的少数民族青年服务 创新的努力使小学年龄少数族裔儿童参与科学并满足国家需求 培养多样性在准备下一代以满足生物医学，行为和临床研究 美国的需求。 该项目旨在利用儿童的好奇心及其天生的自然能力 调查人员。总体目标是增强服务不足的小学生与科学相关的能力， 利用对他们有趣的机会，并且与他们自己的健康和保健相关， 激发人们对科学和健康相关的科学职业的兴趣，并培养敏锐的年轻消费者 科学的人已经获得了在课堂内外学习科学的技能。这将是 通过开发和实施课程从鼓励科学实践开始 提出问题并将专注于允许孩子在学习中回答这些问题的方法 吸引并刺激它们的环境。 具体目标是1）为促进科学相关的第二至5年级学生开发丰富的课程 能力并激发人们对科学，健康和保健的兴趣； 2）增加学生的知识 科学方法，提高他们在学习科学方面的自我效能，刺激好奇心并提高意识 对科学和健康职业道路的兴趣； 3）在随机对照试验中调查 旨在通过促进询问来增强科学参与和能力的策略的范围 问题导致小学生对科学概念和方法的了解， 自我效能，好奇心和对科学的兴趣； 4）广泛传播评估的程序结果 以及全球卫生研究人员，非正式科学教育者和正式社区的研究结果 科学教育者和K-12研究社区。 评估计划将记录任务课程的影响。严格的随机性 对照试验将提供有关最能满足科学教育需求的策略的见解 代表性不足的少数民族儿童在其科学和健康相关的任务中。