Student-Designed Physiology Laboratory

该项目的目标是（1）使一个新的学生设计的人体生理学实验室模型，它集成了科学探究ilto需要一个生理学实验室的几门课程的实施成为可能，（2）正式评估利用学生设计的实验室作为教学法的课程目标。这种实验室模式使学生能够设计自己的实验练习，收集数据，并使用微机技术分析数据。该项目以国家教育协会的一些建议为目标。利用该大学有限的设备进行了一项试点研究。虽然学生们在尝试自己创建实验时学到了很多关于方法、控制和财务约束的知识，但他们受到缺乏变量收集仪器和更复杂的数据分析能力的限制。 该项目的新设备包括六台带有软件和传感器的微型计算机，用于评估心脏功能、通过波形分析的大脑功能、肌肉功能、运动/健身相关数据、呼吸功能、皮肤温度和电流皮肤反应。此外，新的微机辅助软件使学生在实验设计中发挥更积极的作用。在设计实验室方面发挥更积极的作用，使学生能够更加熟悉科学过程，因为它实际上是，即，创造实验背后的想法，而不是简单地进行食谱式的实验室练习。

The goals of this project are (1) to make possible the implementation of a new student-designed human physiology laboratory model which integrates scientific inquiry ilto several courses requiring a physiology laboratory and (2) to formally assess curricular goals that utilize student-designed laboratories as pedagogy. This laboratory model enables students to design their own laboratory exercises, collect data, and analyze their data with the use of microcomputer technology. The project addresses a number of recommendations from national educational associations as its goals. A pilot study was conducted with the limited equipment available at the university. While the students learned a great deal about methodology, controls, and financial constraints as they attempted to create experiments on their own, they were limited by the lack of variable gathering instrumentation and more sophisticated data analysis capabilities. The new equipment for this project includes six microcomputers with software and transducers to assess cardiac function, brain function by wave analysis, muscle function, exercise/fitness-related data, respiratory function, skin temperature, and galvonic skin response. In addition, new microcomputer-assisted software enables students to take a more active role in experimental design. Taking a more active role in designing laboratories enables the student to become more acquainted with the scientific process as it actually is, i.e., creating the ideas behind the experiments and not simply performing a cookbook-type laboratory exercise.