The BioQUEST Curriculum Development Project

该奖项提供资金以帮助支持BioQUEST课程开发项目。该项目是一个生物学家联盟首次课程开发工作的延伸，该联盟基于三个P(提出问题、解决问题和劝说同行)的学习方法设计教学材料。这个第一个示范项目已经形成了一个全国生物学家网络，致力于通过强调使用开放式问题来改进入门和非专业水平的本科生物学教育。现在，BioQUEST项目的目的是通过聚集更多的生物学家联盟来扩大这个网络，这些生物学家将成为一个旨在将研究方法整合到学习中的主要教学材料开发项目的一部分。这些材料将包括开发额外的软件模拟和工具，围绕现有软件设计教学材料，开发反映3P方法的不依赖计算机的材料，以及开发可在大型课程中使用的材料和方法，以吸引学生提出问题、解决问题或说服学生。与最初的演示项目相比，该奖项的资金将用于开发更广泛主题的材料，最初的演示项目侧重于生物化学、生态学、进化论、遗传学和生理学。在这些讲习班中编写的材料将在后续的小型讲习班中进行测试、改进和讨论，然后尽可能广泛地传播。除了协调这60名教师/开发人员的努力外，BioQUEST的工作人员还将继续开发他们自己的调查实验室和实地练习、计算机模拟和其他教学材料；将编辑和传播材料；协调校园测试和材料评估；并就开发项目举行全国研讨会。

This award provides funds to help support The BioQUEST Curriculum Development Project. The program is an extension of an inaugural curriculum development effort of a consortium of biologists who designed instructional materials based on a three P's (Problem- posing, Problem-solving, and Persuasion of peers) approach to learning. This first demonstration project has resulted in a national network of biologists dedicated to the improvement of introductory and non-majors level undergraduate biology education by stressing the use of open-ended problems. Now the intent of the BioQUEST project is to enlarge this network by gathering an additional consortium of biologists who will be part of a major instructional materials development project aimed at integrating a research approach to learning. These materials will include the development of additional software simulations and tools, the design of instructional materials built around existing software, the development of materials that reflect the 3P's approach that are not computer dependent, and the development of materials and approaches that can be used in large lectures to engage students in problem-posing, problem solving, or persuasion. Funds from this award will be used to develop materials in a broader array of topics than the initial demonstration project which focused on biochemistry, ecology, evolution, genetics, and physiology. The materials developed in these workshops will be tested, refined, discussed in a follow-up mini-workshop, and then disseminated as widely as possible. Besides coordinating the efforts of these sixty teacher/developers, BioQUEST staff will continue to develop their own investigative lab and field exercises, computer simulations, and other teaching materials; will edit and disseminate materials; coordinate campus testing and evaluation of materials; and present national symposia on the development project.