Laboratory School for the Study of Human Development on the UCSD Campus

该提案的目标是在加州大学圣地亚哥分校校园内建立一个人类发展研究实验室学院。实验学院旨在满足加州大学圣地亚哥分校对人类发展专业学生实验室培训的迫切需求。多年来，加州大学圣地亚哥分校管理部门和加州大学圣地亚哥分校发展社区的成员都认识到需要一个本科生发展实验室设施。然而，建立这样一个设施受到许多因素的阻碍，最严重的是现有校园日托中心的设施和资源有限。去年财政大臣批准拨款建造一所新的日托所。日托中心的建设为我们提供了建设实验学校的一个重要组成部分的机会，即一流的观察和实验测试设施。心理和传播系已同意提供与实验设计和分析有关的活动所需的额外实验室空间。实验学院是围绕平衡的、整合良好的本科课程核心课程设计的，这将为学生提供直接接触一系列研究人类发展的方法。课程既提供实验课程，也为学生个人提供参与独立研究或荣誉论文项目的机会。在初始阶段，实验学校将专注于学龄前和学龄早期的发展。这是一个合乎逻辑的起点，因为加州大学圣地亚哥分校的教师在这个年龄段的专业知识，也因为最近获得的资源将为这个年龄段的孩子提供一个优秀的测试设施。

The goal of this proposal is to establish a Laboratory School for the Study of Human Development on the UCSD campus. The Laboratory School is intended to fill the pressing need at UCSD for laboratory training of students of Human Development. The need for an undergraduate developmental laboratory facility has been recognized for many years by both the UCSD administration and by the members of the UCSD developmental community. However, establishment of a such a facility has been hampered by a number of factors, the most serious being the limited facilities and resources available at the existing campus day care center. Last year funding was approved by the Chancellor for the construction of a new day care facility. The construction of the day care center has provided the opportunity for us to build one essential component of the Laboratory School, that is, a first-rate observational and experimental testing facility. The Psychology and Communication Departments have agreed to provide the additional laboratory space needed for activities associated with experimental design and analyses. The Laboratory School has been designed around a balanced, well-integrated core curriculum of undergraduate courses which will provide students with direct exposure to a range of approaches for studying human development. The curriculum offers both laboratory courses and opportunities for individual students to participate in independent research studies or honors thesis projects. In the initial phase, the Laboratory School will focus on development in the preschool and early school-age period. This is the logical starting point both because of UCSD faculty expertise in this age period, and because of the recent acquisition of resources which will make available an excellent facility for testing children in this age range.