Enrichment of Quantitative and Technological Skills in Introductory Anatomy and Physiology Courses

丰富解剖学和生理学入门课程中的定量和技术技能

• 批准号: 9451796
• 负责人: Jay Nelson
• 金额: $ 6.51万
• 依托单位: Towson University
• 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: 1994-09-01 至 1996-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9451796&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enrichment; Quantitative; Technological; Skills; Introductory

9451796 Nelson The Department of Biological Sciences proposes to improve the quality of its heavily utilized 200-level Human Anatomy and Physiology course sequence. This two-semester program is taken by as many as 600 students per annum, most of whom are destined for positions in education, science, and the allied health fields. For many of these students, this will be their only training in the structure and function of the human body. In its current configuration, the laboratory segment of this program is largely anatomical with instructional aids consisting of charts, models, and preserved dissection specimens; teaching of physiological principles in the laboratory is restricted to "demonstration level" activity. We suspect that this emphasis on anatomical study, as opposed to "hands on" experimental exercises, dominates the laboratory components of similar courses at other institutions. Thus, many students are missing a valuable opportunity to enhance their analytical and technological skills while learning physiology. Our proposal seeks to redress a perceived decline in the quantitative abilities and instrumentation literacy of our graduates by providing the means for outfitting the 200-level Anatomy and Physiology laboratories at Towson State University with low-cost, durable physiological monitoring equipment. We also propose to use this instrumentation in novel laboratory exercises in which the students themselves serve as subject and experimentor. Emphasis will be placed on "hands-on" learning of physiology and requiring the students to master quantitative skills in order to analyze the data they collect. Exposure to instrumented physiology at this level will also provide the students with a foundation in the analytical and evaluative techniques focal to their fields of inquiry and will accelerate their transition to professionals. Additionally, by instrumenting our 200-level laboratories, we will expose prospective students of our advanced physiology laboratories, slated for a transition to computerized data acquisition, to conventional instrumentation technology at the sophomore level.

9451796纳尔逊生物科学系建议提高其大量使用的200级人体解剖学和生理学课程序列的质量。这个两学期的课程每年有多达600名学生参加，其中大多数人都是教育，科学和联合健康领域的职位。对于这些学生中的许多人来说，这将是他们在人体结构和功能方面的唯一训练。在目前的配置中，该计划的实验室部分主要是解剖学，教学辅助工具包括图表，模型和保存的解剖标本;实验室中的生理学原理教学仅限于“演示级别”活动。我们怀疑，这种强调解剖学研究，而不是“动手”的实验练习，占主导地位的实验室组成部分，类似的课程在其他机构。 因此，许多学生错过了一个宝贵的机会，以提高他们的分析和技术技能，而学习生理学。 我们的建议旨在纠正我们的毕业生的定量能力和仪器素养的明显下降，通过提供装备200级解剖学和生理学实验室在陶森州立大学与低成本，耐用的生理监测设备的手段。我们还建议在新的实验室练习中使用这种仪器，学生自己作为受试者和实验者。 重点将放在生理学的“动手”学习，并要求学生掌握定量技能，以分析他们收集的数据。在这个级别接触仪器生理学也将为学生提供一个基础，在分析和评估技术集中在他们的调查领域，并将加速他们向专业人士的过渡。 此外，通过装备我们的200级实验室，我们将向未来的学生展示我们先进的生理学 实验室，预定过渡到计算机化的数据采集，传统的仪器技术在大二的水平。