Interactive Multimedia for Developing Ciritical Thinking in Biology Based on the New Benchmarks Curriculum Model

基于新基准课程模型的交互式多媒体培养生物学批判性思维

• 批准号: 9653034
• 负责人: Daniel Lemons
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: CUNY City College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-05-01 至 1999-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9653034&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interactive; Multimedia; Developing; Ciritical; Thinking

Human Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) education today is constrained by three realities: 1) the area of coverage as defined by the standard texts is large and expanding, 2) in- depth understanding of even one body systems takes considerable time and skill to develop and 3) most students are poorly prepared for the kind of learning that generates in-depth understanding. In our current CCD project we have developed a new Benchmarks Curriculum which addresses these facts. It has become apparent that there is significant interest in our curriculum, but many instructors find departing significantly from the standard A&P curriculum difficult because they cannot offer adequate forms of support to their students. Commercial text books have tended to set the de facto curriculum standard in A&P because they are the major learning support resource. This standard entails extensive but superficial coverage. Now, multimedia CD-ROM's are emerging as the central ancillary resource to the textbooks. Their design, however, is heavily influenced by the curricular model of the textbooks. We are proposing a new multimedia resource because we would like to use the power and appeal of this new medium to help instructors break away from the traditional curriculum and choose an alternate pathway. Our new Benchmarks Curriculum is such an alternative, fostering the development of in-depth content mastery along with the critical thinking and problem solving skills students need to successfully apply their A&P knowledge. Without good multimedia support, many students will probably be unable to obtain those skills. We believe this project has the potential to greatly amplify the impact of our new NSF supported Benchmarks Curriculum. The project has developed formal ties with the CUNY project in teacher preparation, an NSF Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation. Workshops will be conducted for faculty to help them incorporate modules produced into courses designed for or including students who are preparing to be teachers. NSF FORM 1358 (1/94)

今天的人体解剖学和生理学（AP）教育受到三个现实的限制：1）由标准文本定义的覆盖范围很大且不断扩大，2）即使是一个身体系统的深入理解也需要相当多的时间和技能来发展，3）大多数学生对产生深入理解的学习准备不足。在我们目前的CCD项目中，我们开发了一个新的基准课程，解决这些问题。 很明显，我们的课程有很大的兴趣，但许多教师发现偏离标准AP课程很难，因为他们不能提供足够的形式支持他们的学生。商业教科书作为主要的学习支持资源，往往成为高中英语课程的事实标准。这一标准涵盖面很广，但很肤浅。现在，多媒体CD-ROM正在成为教科书的主要辅助资源。然而，它们的设计在很大程度上受到教科书课程模式的影响。 我们提出了一个新的多媒体资源，因为我们想利用这种新媒体的力量和吸引力，以帮助教师摆脱传统的课程，并选择一个替代途径。我们的新基准课程是这样一个替代方案，促进发展深入的内容掌握沿着的批判性思维和解决问题的技能，学生需要成功地应用他们的AP知识。如果没有良好的多媒体支持，许多学生可能无法获得这些技能。我们相信这个项目有可能大大扩大我们新的NSF支持的基准课程的影响。 该项目与纽约市立大学教师准备项目建立了正式联系，这是NSF教师准备卓越合作项目。 将为教师举办讲习班，帮助他们将制作的模块纳入为准备成为教师的学生设计的课程中。 NSF表格1358（1/94）