Teachers' participation in research programs improves their students' achievement in science

Science

Volumn 326, Issue 5951, 2009, Pages 440-442

  Silverstein, Samuel C ^a   Dubner, Jay ^a   Miller, Jon ^b   Glied, Sherry ^a   Loike, John D ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH PROGRAM; TEACHING;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SCIENCE; TEACHER; TEACHING;

ACHIEVEMENT; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, CONTINUING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FACULTY; HUMANS; NEW YORK; NEW YORK CITY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; UNIVERSITIES;

COLUMBIA [MISSOURI]; MISSOURI; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350128133     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1177344     Document Type: Article

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21. The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; the Ambrose Monell, Braitmayer, Bristol Myers Squibb, Camile and Henry Dreyfus, Greenwald, Mellam Family, J.P. Morgan, and NY Times Company Foundations; the Charles Edison Fund; the Hebrew Technical Institute; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Center for Research Resources-Science Education Partnership Award of the National Institutes of Health; NSF's Division of Engineering Education and Human Resource Development; Columbia University's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center; the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust; Columbia University faculty, staff, and program alumni who have participated in CUSRP's Advisory Committee; the 200 Columbia faculty who have mentored teachers; the 250 teachers who have participated in the program to date; and the anonymous reviewer who made many helpful suggestions that have clarified and strengthened this manuscript.