Integrating Group Laboratory Activities Across the Chemistry Curriculum

将小组实验室活动整合到整个化学课程中

• 批准号: 9651050
• 负责人: Alfred D'Agostino
• 金额: $ 3.63万
• 依托单位: College of Notre Dame of Maryland
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-15 至 1999-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9651050&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrating; Group; Laboratory; Activities; Across

An initiative entitled Integrating Group Laboratory Activities Across the Chemistry Curriculum is working to solve a serious problem in chemistry education. Nonscience and science majors enrolled in introductory courses are not involved in cooperative group laboratory exercises relevant to the environment, advanced materials, and biotechnology because of the lack of versatile, state-of-the-art instrumentation. As a group project in Instrumental Analysis, chemistry majors are developing and testing protocols involving CE, IC, infrared, and VIS spectroscopies. These experiments are being exported to introductory chemistry lab courses and executed by combined groups of science and nonscience majors. Chemistry majors, acting as peer-instructors, guide students in executing experiments that reinforce chemical concepts. The project supports three major objectives in a revised introductory chemistry curriculum: cooperative laboratory interaction between students in General Chemistry, The Chemical World Around Us, and Instrumental Analysis; rigorous demonstration of quantitative chemical principles in relevant contexts to modern chemical perspectives; and a challenging project-oriented laboratory experience that facilitates peer-directed group learning. The audience for this project includes women of traditional college age who are enrolled in introductory chemistry courses, as well as junior and senior chemistry majors. About 45% of the students in the Chemical World course are preservice teachers. The project affects more than 300 students. The impact of this project is that it increases interaction between students in the upper- and lower-division courses; introduces women to technology-centered experiments; introduces preservice teachers to pedagogy that will be important to them in their future classrooms; introduces sophisticated concepts in the context of modern chemical experiments using instrumentation; and creates peer-directed learning opportunities for science and nonscience majors.

一项名为“在化学课程中整合小组实验活动”的倡议正在努力解决化学教育中的一个严重问题。选修导论课程的非科学和科学专业学生，由于缺乏通用的、最先进的仪器，无法参与与环境、先进材料和生物技术相关的合作小组实验练习。作为仪器分析的一个小组项目，化学专业的学生正在开发和测试涉及CE， IC，红外和可见光谱的协议。这些实验被导出到化学实验入门课程中，并由理科和非理科专业的学生联合完成。化学专业的学生，作为同侪导师，引导学生进行实验来强化化学概念。该项目支持修订后的化学入门课程的三个主要目标：普通化学、我们周围的化学世界和仪器分析学生之间的合作实验室互动；在现代化学观点的相关背景下，定量化学原理的严格论证；一个具有挑战性的项目导向的实验室经验，促进同侪导向的小组学习。这个项目的受众包括传统的大学年龄的女性，她们参加了化学入门课程，以及大三和大四的化学专业。大约45%的化学世界课程的学生是职前教师。该项目影响了300多名学生。这个项目的影响是，它增加了学生之间的互动在上低年级课程；介绍妇女以技术为中心的实验；向职前教师介绍对他们未来课堂很重要的教学法；在使用仪器的现代化学实验的背景下介绍复杂的概念；并为理科生和非理科生创造了同侪指导的学习机会。