Systemic Change In The Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum

阿肯色州化学项目联盟希望重组他们的化学项目，与美国国家科学基金会资助的阿肯色州全州科学教育系统倡议并行，该倡议主要集中在K-12部门，但有13-16个扩展部分。拟议的研究将分为三个部分：整个课程的重组和课程中的具体课程的重组；课堂教学方式的变化；以及实验室指导。新的文本材料的产生将随着这些创新而产生。公布课程变化及其实施的工具将是计算机和通信方面的最新进展。我们将研究以下技术：使用交互式上行/下行系统的远程学习；计算机建模与仿真；教学实验室的个人计算机数据采集/分析系统；化学相关的计算和演练软件，视频和交互式光盘。我们建议在全州范围内的化学和相关课程（生物学、工程学、医学预科、牙科预科、兽医预科）的学士学位和疯牛病课程中加入广泛的主题元素。这些在低年级课程中强调的共同主题将在仔细研究现有和潜在的示范课程后选择。特别强调的主题是，当代化学是作为一门跨学科的事业进行的，而不是目前划分的化学课程所建议的。＊＊＊

9450611 Chittenden The Arkansas Consortium of Chemistry Programs wishes to reorganize their chemistry programs in parallel with the NSF-funded Arkansas Statewide Systemic Initiative for the improvement of science education, an initiative focused principally in the K-12 sector but having 13-16 extensions. The proposed study will have three segments: the reorganization of the curriculum as a whole and of specific courses within the curriculum; attendant changes in the delivery of classroom instruction; and of laboratory instruction. The production of new textual materials will follow from these innovations. The vehicle for promulgating curricular changes and their delivery will be recent advances in computing and communications. We will study technologies such as: distance learning using interactive uplink/downlink systems; computer modelling and simulation; personal computer-based data acquisition/analysis systems for teaching laboratories; chemistry-related computational and drill software, video, and interactive CD-ROM. We propose to include broad, thematic elements in our BS and BSE programs, statewide, in Chemistry and in related programs: biology, engineering, pre-healing arts - pre-med, pre-dent, pre-vet. These common themes, stressed strongly in the lower division courses, will be chosen after careful study of existing and potential model curricula. Particularly stressed will be the theme that contemporary chemistry is conducted as a more interdisciplinary enterprise than current compartmentalized chemistry curricula would suggest. ***