Program Background
As part of the continuing effort of Kingsborough Community College to initiate innovative collaborative programs that promote the mission of Kingsborough as a college for the community, the Behavioral Research Project was established. In collaboration with the high schools participating in Kingsborough's College Now program, the project offers upper juniors demonstrating high academic achievement the opportunity to earn eight (8) tuition-free college credits during their high school upper junior spring and senior fall terms.

The Projects
The Kingsborough/Department of Education Collaborative Program in the Behavioral Sciences has been designed to introduce selected high school students to the basics of social science research methods and to enable them to develop, design, collect data and conduct an original research project. In addition to learning independent college-level research, the goal of the program is to have students submit their work for consideration to the Intel Science Talent search and other scholarship competitions. To attain this goal the curriculum has been tailored to include course work in conducting research, designing questionnaires, computer technology and testing hypotheses and assessment of research findings. Regardless of competition outcome, students who participate will gain invaluable transitional education and research experience. Students will also gain greater insight into the disciplines of sociology and psychology than they other would have at this point in their educational careers.