Instrumentation for Interdisciplinary Open Laboratories

该项目致力于采购面向项目的开放式实验室设备和跨学科科学课程的学习支持设施。该机构目前为教育专业提供三门跨学科科学课程，以及由两门课程组成的跨学科核心科学序列，这些课程正在美国国家科学基金会的资助下开发。新设备与这五门课程结合使用。在这些实验室中获得的经验最终可以作为开发实验室和学习支持设施的基础，供所有教育专业和所有学习核心科学课程的学生使用。该项目解决了本科实验室科学中的一些常见问题，包括空间、设备和人员的有效利用；在大班规模的限制下应用主动学习技术的困难；以及将科学素养和过程技能提高到国家水平的需要。

This project addresses the acquisition of equipment for project-oriented open-schedule laboratories and learning support facilities for interdisciplinary science courses. The institution now offers three interdisciplinary science courses for education majors and an interdisciplinary core science sequence of two courses that is being developed under a current National Science Foundation grant. The new equipment is being used in conjunction with these five courses. Experience gained in these laboratories can ultimately be used as a basis for the development of laboratories and learning support facilities that will be used by all education majors and by all students taking core science courses. This project deals with a number of common problems in undergraduate laboratory science, including the efficient use of space, equipment, and personnel; the difficulties of applying active learning techniques under the constraints imposed by large class sizes; and the need to improve science literacy and process skills to national levels.