Computerized Data Acquisition, Computer Simulations, and theWorld Wide Web in a Unique Undergraduate Laboratory in Physiology

独特的生理学本科实验室中的计算机数据采集、计算机模拟和万维网

• 批准号: 9651280
• 负责人: Donald Hoagland
• 金额: $ 1.86万
• 依托单位: Westfield State College
• 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: 1996-07-15 至 1998-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9651280&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Computerized; Data; Acquisition; Computer; Simulations

This small, liberal arts institution serves approximately 5,000 undergraduate students. Each year approximately 300 students conduct physiology laboratory experiments in one of five separate biology courses. Six to seven percent of these students come from traditionally underrepresented groups in the sciences. In these courses, students learn physiological concepts and techniques through an inquiries-based approach and through cooperative and collaborative learning. While the laboratory methods for collecting and recording data pertaining to physiological events have progressed rapidly, the equipment available to students has not kept pace. A series of experiments based upon those already being performed is being developed to give students the opportunity to collect and analyze data with state-of-the-art transducers and instrumentation and a computerized acquisition system. Additionally, computer simulations of other physiological events are used, allowing for practical lab experience, realistic experimental design, and data analysis in a short period of time and at a low cost. The inclusion of additional laboratory exercises designed to investigate human physiology makes the lab experience more relative to a wider variety of students and helps recruit more underrepresented students into biology. Finally, all new laboratory exercises and student-collected data can be made available through the World Wide Web. Posting the data enables students conducting the same experiments throughout the world to share their data, refine the laboratory exercises, and establish networks that can serve them throughout their careers.

这所小型的文理学院为大约5000名本科生提供服务。每年大约有300名学生在五门独立的生物学课程中进行生理学实验室实验。这些学生中有6%到7%来自传统上代表性不足的科学群体。在这些课程中，学生通过探究式的方法和合作学习来学习生理概念和技术。虽然收集和记录生理事件相关数据的实验室方法发展迅速，但可供学生使用的设备却没有跟上。在已经进行的实验的基础上，正在开发一系列实验，使学生有机会利用最先进的传感器和仪器以及计算机化的采集系统收集和分析数据。此外，计算机模拟其他生理事件的使用，允许实际的实验室经验，现实的实验设计，并在短时间内以低成本进行数据分析。包括额外的实验室练习，旨在调查人类生理学，使实验室经验更广泛的学生，并有助于招收更多的代表性不足的学生进入生物学。最后，所有新的实验练习和学生收集的数据都可以通过万维网提供。发布数据使在世界各地进行相同实验的学生能够分享他们的数据，改进实验室练习，并建立可以在整个职业生涯中为他们服务的网络。