Teaching Freshmen to Think: Active Learning in Introductory Biology

教新生思考：生物学入门的主动学习

• 批准号: 9055833
• 负责人: Judith Miller
• 金额: $ 7.61万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-08-01 至 1993-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9055833&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Teaching; Freshmen; Think; Active; Learning

The principal investigators, Dr. Judith Miller, Dr. Ronald Cheetham, and Dr. John Wilkes, have designed and conducted a novel freshman biology sequence in which the student take an active role in learning. Students work in small groups to solve problems which they have helped to devise. Laboratories are individually paced and culminate in independent investigations. Philosophy, mechanics, subjective results, and partial quantitative results support the conclusion that the course has been very successful, but problems remain. Under this grant, the principal investigators will undertake new strategies and tasks to improve efficiency; improve individual learning and small group dynamics; upgrade laboratory offerings; and disseminate their teaching methods and materials. This award will enable them to enhance their course offering in order to make it maximally effective for their students and to make their methods available to other college biology teachers.

主要研究人员朱迪思·米勒博士、罗纳德·切瑟姆博士和约翰·威尔克斯博士设计并实施了一个新的新生生物学序列，让学生在学习中发挥积极作用。学生们以小组形式工作，解决他们帮助设计的问题。实验室是单独制定进度的，并在独立调查中达到顶峰。哲学、力学、主观结果和部分量化结果支持这一结论，即课程非常成功，但仍然存在问题。根据这笔赠款，首席研究人员将采取新的战略和任务，以提高效率；改善个人学习和小组动力；改进实验室课程；传播他们的教学方法和材料。这一奖项将使他们能够改进他们的课程，以便使其对学生最大限度地有效，并将他们的方法提供给其他大学生物教师。