Laboratory Enhancement of the Undergraduate Learning Experience in Biological Anthropology

生物人类学本科生学习体验的实验室增强

• 批准号: 9651303
• 负责人: Susan Ford
• 金额: $ 3.17万
• 依托单位: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
• 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: 1996-07-01 至 1998-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9651303&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Laboratory; Enhancement; Undergraduate; Learning; Experience

Most undergraduate courses in biological anthropology remain primarily lecture because of the lack of scheduled laboratory sessions and the scarcity of available materials. This department has added a new laboratory section to the most heavily attended introductory class. However, previously resources have allowed for only an adequate laboratory course, not a truly outstanding, innovative opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience with state-of-the-art materials and instrumentation including computer simulations and databases. Through this project, the department is building on existing materials to develop a series of truly involving and challenging laboratory experiences designed for both students in the introductory class and to enhance the interactive learning components of other classes in the bioanthropology curriculum. The new equipment, computers, software, measuring devices, recording materials, casts, and magnification equipment, makes possible a series of specific laboratory exercises in the introductory class which enhances students' problem-solving and cooperative learning skills, encouraging collaboration, interchange, and deeper levels of understanding of the material. Because of the special nature of the university's student body, the project has the opportunity to reach many students who come from backgrounds often marked by poor exposure to science, from the under-funded school systems of inner city Chicago and the rural areas of Illinois, Missouri, and Kentucky. These students include first generation college students, minorities, economically and socially disadvantaged students, and physically challenged and learning disabled students. Results can be disseminated through presentations at professional meetings, publications in journals, and the compilation of a lab manual which can be made available to other schools.

大多数生物人类学的本科课程仍然主要是讲座，因为缺乏预定的实验室会议和可用的材料稀缺。这个系在参加人数最多的入门课上增加了一个新的实验室。然而，之前的资源只允许足够的实验室课程，而不是一个真正出色的创新机会，让学生获得使用最先进材料和仪器（包括计算机模拟和数据库）的实践经验。通过这个项目，该部门正在建立在现有的材料，开发一系列真正参与和具有挑战性的实验室经验，专为学生在入门级，并加强在生物人类学课程的其他类的互动学习组件。 新的设备，计算机，软件，测量设备，记录材料，铸件和放大设备，使一系列具体的实验室练习成为可能，在入门课上，提高学生的解决问题和合作学习技能，鼓励合作，交流和更深层次的理解材料。由于该大学学生群体的特殊性，该项目有机会接触到许多来自芝加哥市中心资金不足的学校系统以及伊利诺伊州、密苏里州和肯塔基州农村地区的学生。这些学生包括第一代大学生、少数民族、经济和社会处境不利的学生以及身体残疾和学习障碍的学生。 结果可以通过在专业会议上的演讲，在期刊上的出版物，以及可以提供给其他学校的实验室手册的汇编传播。