Sweeping Change in Manageable Units: A Modular Approach to Chemistry Curriculum Reform

可管理单元的彻底改变：化学课程改革的模块化方法

• 批准号: 9450703
• 负责人: C. Bradley Moore
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-01-01 至 1995-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9450703&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sweeping; Change; Manageable; Units; Modular

9450703 Moore Massive reform can start with small steps, particularly when the politics of change are so complex. Change in the chemistry curriculum must meet the needs of science and engineering departments whose students we serve, as well as the needs of the chemistry major going into industry or graduate school, and the liberal arts conscripts to chemistry courses. In order to make inroads toward change we must find a path that makes possible a curriculum that can be modified continually, is usable in a variety of institutions, can accommodate the increasingly diverse group of students we need to serve, and encourages participation of faculty and students alike. The in- and out-of-classroom experience must incorporate new technologies to aid the students in accessing, organizing, filtering and assimilating scientific information. We must revise our model of curriculum across the rapidly blurring boundaries of the subdisciplines of chemistry, and the disciplines of all sciences. We propose to develop self-contained modules, at all levels of the chemistry curriculum, that can be used for 2-4 weeks in a lecture or laboratory course, The instructional tools developed for the module will include software, videos, interactive CD's and other resource material that can replace or greatly augment traditional texts and problem to interest the students and will be developed in an interdisciplinary manner. Core concepts from the essential chemistry "tool kit" will be included in each module and an instructor could select a variety of modules in order to cover the same core concepts. This is more than a repacking of chemistry, it is the beginning of ongoing systemic change that allows for all faculty, innovative or traditional, to use new approaches and contexts in their classrooms. A consortium of schools, predominantly from California -- the University of California, the California State University, the two- year Colleges, private institutions -- as well as three institutions from Atlanta, Georgia will serve as the working partners to establish the design and testing of the modules.

9450703摩尔大规模的改革可以从小步开始，特别是当变革的政治如此复杂的时候。 化学课程的变化必须满足我们所服务的学生的科学和工程部门的需求，以及化学专业进入工业或研究生院的需求，以及文科应征者对化学课程的需求。 为了取得进展的变化，我们必须找到一条道路，使可能的课程，可以不断修改，是在各种机构中使用，可以容纳日益多样化的学生群体，我们需要服务，并鼓励教师和学生的参与。 课堂内外的体验必须融入新技术，以帮助学生访问、组织、过滤和吸收科学信息。 我们必须修改我们的课程模式，跨越化学分支学科和所有科学学科之间迅速模糊的界限。 我们建议在化学课程的各个层次开发独立的模块，可以在讲座或实验室课程中使用2-4周，为该模块开发的教学工具将包括软件，视频，互动光盘和其他资源材料，可以取代或大大增加传统的文本和问题，以感兴趣的学生，并将在一个跨学科的发展方式 每个单元将包括基本化学“工具包”中的核心概念，教师可以选择各种单元来涵盖相同的核心概念。 这不仅仅是化学的重新包装，它是正在进行的系统变革的开始，允许所有教师，创新或传统，在课堂上使用新的方法和环境。 一个由学校组成的联盟，主要来自加州--加州大学、加州州立大学、两年制学院、私立机构--以及三所 来自格鲁吉亚亚特兰大的机构将作为工作伙伴，建立模块的设计和测试。