Developing Non-Traditional Students' Understanding of Physiological Function Through Experiments and Physical and Computer-Based Models

9451852柠檬在传统A&P课程提供的课程与许多非传统学生的需求之间存在严重的不匹配。因此，这些学生不是在学习系统是如何运行的，而是在记忆有关它们的许多事实。我们建议创新实验室首先在一个广泛的组织主题的背景下展示功能，然后引入解剖学和生理学细节来解释功能。我们从使用物理模型的实践研究开始，然后发展到计算机模拟、解剖学关联和实验。这颠倒了传统的学习顺序，帮助学生从具体的经验转向对动态生理过程的正式思考。这些新实验室的核心是基于Macintosh Quadra 660AV的多功能实验室工作站，带有CD-ROM，运行LabVIEW和多媒体软件，并连接到虚拟科学家界面，该界面调节来自各种传感器的信号并控制实验和模型。这项提议是对一个名为“在非传统学生中培养批判性思维和内容掌握：一种全面的、技术增强的方法”的合作伙伴关系项目的补充。它将使我们能够为实验室配备必要的设备，以实施我们正在开发的新A&P课程。

9451852 Lemons A significant mismatch exists between what traditional A&P courses offer and what many non-traditional students need. As a result, these students are not learning how systems function, but are memorizing many facts about them. We propose innovative laboratories which present function first in the context of a broad organizing theme, and then introduce anatomical and physiological details to explain the function. We begin with hands-on investigations using physical models and then progress to computer simulation, anatomical correlations and experiments. This reverses the traditional order of learning, helping students move from concrete experiences to formal thinking about dynamic physiological processes. The centerpiece of these new laboratories are Multi-purpose Laboratory Workstations based on the Macintosh Quadra 660AV with CD-ROM, running LabView and multi-media software, and connected to the Virtual Scientist interface which conditions signals from a variety of transducers and controls experiments and models. This proposal is complementary to a CCD project entitled, "Developing critical thinking and content mastery in non-traditional students: a comprehensive, technologically enhanced approach." It will allow us to outfit the laboratories with equipment necessary to implement the new A&P curriculum we are developing.