New Science Project

9354785 Schneider新科学项目将改变格林内尔学院教授生物、化学、数学、物理和心理学入门科学的方式。这个项目回应了传统上阻碍属于科学领域代表性不足群体的学生成功追求科学的障碍。新科学项目将通过以下方式为其他高校服务：1)提供以学生为中心的方法来解决科学领域代表性不足的问题；2)在鼓励和建立个人教学实验的基础上，提供一个长期的、全校范围的课程改革的例子。在全国范围内，入门科学和数学课程需要迅速而认真的关注，以保持未来科学家、工程师和数学家的生产力，并吸引传统上代表性不足的群体的新学生进入这些领域。随着教师从这项拨款中释放出来的时间，格林内尔学院将以一种高度实验性的方式开发一系列协调的新型互动课程，以确定哪种课程结构最有效地使所有人群都能接触到入门科学，以及它应该成为的科学和数学的迷人起点。我们将鼓励各种各样的模式，一些作为附加的研讨会，一些作为完整的课程修订，这样我们就可以在同一大学环境中对不同的技术进行有益的比较。

9354785 Schneider The New Science Project will change the way Grinnell College teaches introductory science in biology chemistry, mathematics, physics, and psychology. This program responds to the barriers that traditionally discourage the successful pursuit of science by students belonging to underrepresented groups in science. The New Science Project will serve other colleges and universities by 1) offering a student-center approach to the problem of under-representation in science and 2) providing an example of long-term, division-wide curricular reform, based on encouraging and building on individual teaching experiments. Nationally, introductory science and mathematics courses need prompt and serious attention to maintain their productivity of future scientists, engineers and mathematicians overall, and to entice new students from traditionally under-represented groups into these fields. With faculty release time from this grant, Grinnell College will develop a coordinated series of new, interactive courses in a highly experimental fashion to determine what course structures most effectively make introductory science accessible to all populations, and the engaging starting point to science and mathematics that it should be. We will encourage a variety of models, some as add-on workshops, some as complete course revisions, so that we can make useful comparisons of different techniques in the same college environment.