Curriculum Improvements in Undergraduate Physiology Laboratories

本科生生理学实验室课程的改进

• 批准号: 9251764
• 负责人: Dee Silverthorn
• 金额: $ 2.72万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-07-01 至 1994-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9251764&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Curriculum; Improvements; Undergraduate; Physiology; Laboratories

The equipment augments a course which has two goals: to introduce students early in their career to the nature of the scientific process, and to decrease reliance on vertebrates in physiology laboratories. The unique invertebrate experiments demonstrate essential basic principles and in some cases allow students to see phenomena which cannot be easily demonstrated in vertebrates. The exercises are designed to enhance critical thinking and quantitative skills, introduce the use of micro- computers in the laboratory, and teach scientific methodology. Students design many of the experimental protocols within guidelines provided by the lab manual. Students write their reports as "scientific papers" to acquaint them with the standard format of the scientific literature and to enhance their written communication skills. An innovative approach has been designed for distribution of the new physiology laboratory exercises; instead of a traditional student lab manual, the material will be disseminated via a combination of published papers, posters at national meetings, and computer programs. Instructors can then modify the exercises for their laboratory situations and create personalized student manuals suited to their student populations and available resources. The equipment includes a sea-water and environmental chamber, spectrophotometers, microscopes, osmometer, centrifuge, oxygen monitors, recorders, myographs, pre-amplifiers, and computers with printers and software.

该设备增加了一个课程，该课程有两个目标： 在职业生涯的早期向学生介绍 科学过程，并减少对脊椎动物的依赖， 生理学实验室 独特的无脊椎动物实验 展示基本原则，在某些情况下， 让学生看到那些无法轻易证明的现象 在脊椎动物中。 演习旨在提高关键的 思维和定量技能，介绍微观的运用， 实验室里的计算机，教授科学方法论。 学生设计许多实验方案， 实验室手册提供的指南。 学生写他们的 报告作为“科学论文”，以使他们了解 科学文献的标准格式，并加强 他们的书面沟通技巧。 一种创新的方法， 被设计用于分配新的生理学实验室 练习;而不是传统的学生实验手册， 材料将通过出版的 国家会议上的文件、海报和计算机程序。 然后，教师可以修改他们实验室的练习 情况和创建个性化的学生手册适合 他们的学生群体和可用资源。 的 设备包括海水和环境室， 压力计、显微镜、渗透压计、离心机、氧气 监视器、记录器、肌描记器、前置放大器和计算机 with printers打印机and software软件.