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.

项目摘要 大脑健康建立在脑波成功的基础上，这是NIH科学教育伙伴奖 （SEPA）支持计划，该计划已在25个公共纽约市成功实施 学校，有600多名学生。我们的新提议的计划“大脑健康”对其中一个响应 SEPA高计划兴趣的新领域：为学生提供研究生成 数据以使学生为数据科学职业做好准备。大脑健康将由多学科设计 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老师为来自代表性不足的学生提供服务 科学，技术，工程和数学的种族/族裔（STEM）。这将是 在9年/10年级的核心生物学课程中以一个月的单位实施。该计划的学生 将首先通过进行全面调查来参加大规模的“公民科学”研究项目 （部分由学生自己发展）关于他们的健康和生活方式实践。学生也会 通过健身追踪器来衡量他们的心率，并完成计算机化的认知（Stroop）任务 情绪调查。他们将了解大脑可塑性以及积极的（例如体育锻炼）和负面 （例如，压力）生活经历会影响我们的大脑。在近对导师（NPM）的支持下，学生 然后，将使用整个识别的公民科学数据库设计数据驱动的调查 在所有参与学校中收集，探索问题，例如睡眠质量与 情绪以及健身水平如何与专注的能力相关联。大脑健康平台将指导学生 通过这些调查，通过在过程的关键步骤中提供脚手架。该程序将 在学校范围内的科学博览会上达到高潮，学生将与更​​广泛的学校分享他们的发现 社区。该计划将通过教师专业发展（PD）课程来完成 在学校实施之前的NPM和额外的即时支持。 主要的教育研究问题是如何参与“公民科学”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， 和他们的参与者朝茎； 2）教师在支持数据驱动的学生方面的自我效能 投资； 3）NPMS的心理能力和持续在STEM中的意图。 将招募三名教师的三名队列，每个人参加三年，第一年 发生在大脑健康的PD课程之前（作为匹配良好的比较）。跨越5- 年度项目，预计约有1500名学生将参加大脑健康。项目评估将使用 预编程调查，半结构化访谈和课堂观察。