Brain Healthy: Engaging Students in Citizen Science Brain Health and Wellness Investigations to Promote Data Science Literacy

大脑健康：让学生参与公民科学大脑健康和健康调查，以提高数据科学素养

• 批准号: 10676315
• 负责人: Ido Davidesco
• 金额: $ 26.77万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-05 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10676315
• 关键词: Affective; Area; Attitude; Award; Awareness; Biology; Brain; COVID-19 pandemic; Cognitive; Communication; Communities; Connecticut; Data; Data Analyses; Data Analytics; Data Collection; Data Science; Data Set; Databases; Educational Curriculum; Educational Materials; Ensure; Ethnic Population; Evaluation; Exercise; Feedback; Funding; Goals; Grant; Health; Heart Rate; Interview; Intuition; Investigation; Leadership; Learning; Life Experience; Life Style; Measures; Mental Health; Mentors; Moods; Neurosciences; New York; New York City; Next Generation Science Standards; Personal Satisfaction; Physical Exercise; Principal Investigator; Process; Research; Research Project Grants; STEM career; School Teachers; Schools; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education; Self Efficacy; Stress; Structure; Students; Surveys; Time; Underrepresented Populations; Underrepresented Students; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Wellness Program; Work; Youth; biomedical data science; brain health; career; citizen science; cohort; community science; computerized; coronavirus disease; course development; data communication; data visualization; design; education research; experience; fitness; healthy lifestyle; high school; improved; interest; literacy; minority communities; multidisciplinary; ninth grade; open source; pedagogy; peer coaching; programs; racial population; recruit; research study; scaffold; science education; skills; sleep quality; social media; stress management; student mentoring; student participation; success; teacher; tenth grade; underserved community; web interface; web platform

PROJECT SUMMARY Brain Healthy builds upon the success of BrainWaves, a prior NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA)-supported program, which has been successfully implemented in 25 public New York City schools, reaching over 600 students. Our new proposed program, Brain Healthy, is responsive to one of the new areas of high SEPA programmatic interest: providing students with access to research-generated data to prepare students for data science careers. Brain Healthy will be designed by a multidisciplinary team across the University of Connecticut and New York University in partnership with public school teachers in Connecticut and New York City that primarily serve students from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). It will be implemented as a month-long unit within a 9th/10th grade core biology course. Students in the program will first participate in a large-scale “citizen science” research project by taking a comprehensive survey (partially developed by students themselves) about their health and lifestyle practices. Students will also measure their heart rate with fitness trackers and complete a computerized cognitive (Stroop) task and mood survey. They will learn about brain plasticity and how positive (e.g., physical exercise) and negative (e.g., stress) life experiences impact our brain. With support from near-peer mentors (NPMs), students will then design data-driven investigations utilizing the entire de-identified citizen science database collected across all the participating schools, exploring questions, such as how sleep quality relates to mood and how fitness level associates with ability to focus. The Brain Healthy platform will guide students through these investigations by providing scaffolding in critical steps of the process. The program will culminate in a school-wide science fair, where students will share their findings with the wider school community. The program will be accompanied by professional development (PD) courses for teachers and NPMs prior to school implementation with additional just-in-time support. The main educational research questions are how does participation in a “citizen science” brain health and wellness program impact: 1) Students’ conceptual understanding of data analysis and brain plasticity, and their attitudes toward STEM; 2) Teachers’ self-efficacy in facilitating data-driven student investigations; 3) NPMs’ mentoring ability and intent to persist in STEM. Three cohorts of 10 teachers will be recruited, each participating for three years, with the first year occurring prior to the Brain Healthy PD course (serving as a well-matched comparison). Across the 5- year project, ~1500 students are expected to participate in Brain Healthy. Project evaluation will utilize pre- and post-program surveys, semi-structured interviews, and classroom observations.

项目概要 Brain Healthy 建立在 BrainWaves 的成功之上，BrainWaves 是之前的 NIH 科学教育合作奖 (SEPA) 支持的计划已在纽约市 25 个公共场所成功实施 我们新提出的“大脑健康”计划已惠及 600 多名学生，旨在响应其中一项计划。 SEPA 计划高度感兴趣的新领域：为学生提供获得研究成果的机会 为学生的数据科学职业做好准备的数据将由多学科设计。 康涅狄格大学和纽约大学的团队与公立学校合作 康涅狄格州和纽约市的教师主要为代表性不足的学生提供服务 科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 领域的种族/族裔群体。 作为 9 年级/10 年级核心生物学课程中为期一个月的单元实施。 将首先通过综合调查参与大型“公民科学”研究项目 （部分由学生自己制定）学生还将了解他们的健康和生活方式。 使用健身追踪器测量心率并完成计算机化认知 (Stroop) 任务， 他们将了解大脑的可塑性以及积极（例如体育锻炼）和消极的程度。 （例如，压力）生活经历会影响我们的大脑。在同伴导师 (NPM) 的支持下，学生们。 然后将利用整个去识别化的公民科学数据库设计数据驱动的调查 收集所有参与学校的数据，探索问题，例如睡眠质量与 情绪以及健康水平如何与专注能力相关联。大脑健康平台将指导学生。 该计划将通过在流程的关键步骤中提供脚手架来完成这些调查。 最终在全校范围内举行科学博览会，学生将与更​​广泛的学校分享他们的发现 该计划将伴随教师专业发展（PD）课程。 和国家预防机制在学校实施之前提供额外的及时支持。 主要的教育研究问题是参与“公民科学”如何影响大脑健康 和健康计划的影响：1）学生对数据分析和大脑可塑性的概念理解， 以及他们对 STEM 的态度；2) 教师在促进数据驱动学生方面的自我效能感； 3) NPM 的指导能力和坚持 STEM 的意愿。 将招募三批 10 名教师，每批参加三年，第一年 发生在大脑健康 PD 课程之前（作为 5- 的匹配比较）。 年项目预计将有约 1500 名学生参与大脑健康项目评估。 项目前和项目后调查、半结构化访谈和课堂观察。