Assessment

The purpose of this study is to determine whether enough benefits will accrue to people involved in this program to recommend the implementation of this kind of program in other schools and communities that have a Medical school nearby or a Community based science education support infrastructure.

The assessment of this study has been designed and administered by Georgia Sadler, PhD.Public Health, at the UCSD Cancer Center. Assessment includes the identification of indicator instruments, the formation of significant demographic instruments, data collection, entry, interpretation and analysis. Assistance with all these has been provided by her staff and, in particular, volunteer UCSD graduates Lara Shumer and Michael Crowe.

Instruments include the COPS test, (a national interest inventory), another interest inventory test, data on student reading levels, and Grades, Assent and Consent forms for compliance with Human Subjects Research, and Demographic baseline surveys from both parents and students.

A comparison between the control groups and intervention test groups, should determine if interest in health care careers has increased due to this program. It will also reflect on whether student performance may improve due to the interventions and educational changes that accompany this program. It is expected that the unique features of this program will have a significant positive impact on the students involved and analysis of the data should confirm or deny this expectation.

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