Student Preceptors and Investigative Laboratories in Introductory Psychology

心理学导论的学生导师和研究实验室

• 批准号: 9653232
• 负责人: Bonnie Sherman
• 金额: $ 20.27万
• 依托单位: Saint Olaf 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: 1997-06-01 至 1999-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9653232&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Student; Preceptors; Investigative; Laboratories; Introductory

To provide a laboratory setting for students to carry out scientific inquiry that originates with them in their first course in psychology, and to stimulate interest in teaching, St. Olaf College proposes to develop 1) investigative laboratories as a part of an introductory course for 120 students a year, and 2) a preceptor program offering students interested in teaching, an opportunity to teach in the laboratories during a subsequent term. Students in introductory psychology will participate with a faculty member in class for three hours per week and will then work an additional three hours per week in rotating laboratory sessions conducted by three faculty and preceptors. The laboratory will involve groups of 15 students in each of ten different laboratory sessions. It will provide opportunities for students to translate the curiosity psychology arouses into testable hypotheses, researchable questions, and to design experiments as well as to collect and analyze data. This course is taken by the majority of education majors, who must also take a course in educational psychology. For example, 80% of the current group of 80 seniors in the teacher education program took introductory psychology. Twelve of these students with a background in psychology are preparing to teach K-12 in the laboratory sciences (psychology, biology, chemistry, or physics). In the 1996-97 academic year, 150 students have applied for admission to the teacher education program, indicating its strong growth. Hence, the potential influence of investigative laboratories in introductory psychology is very high. Preceptors will follow the laboratory rotation with a group of introductory students, teaching, fostering student inquiry, helping students in the learning process, and evaluating their work. The goals of the project are: 1) to teach psychology as an investigative laboratory science on a college level from the very first course, 2) to encourage students, interested in college or secondar y school teaching, to teach psychology as an investigative science, 3) to encourage students to work together as a research community in the library, the laboratory and the field, and 4) to design a replicable model that will facilitate construction of investigative laboratory sciences at other colleges and universities.

为了给学生提供一个实验室环境，让他们在心理学的第一门课程中进行科学探究，并激发对教学的兴趣，圣奥拉夫学院建议开发1）调查实验室，作为每年120名学生的入门课程的一部分，和2）一个导师计划，为对教学感兴趣的学生提供，在下一个学期在实验室教书的机会。心理学导论的学生将与一名教师每周上课三小时，然后每周在由三名教师和导师进行的旋转实验室会议中额外工作三小时。该实验室将涉及15名学生在10个不同的实验室会议的每一组。它将为学生提供机会，将好奇心转化为可验证的假设，可研究的问题，并设计实验以及收集和分析数据。 这门课程是由大多数教育专业，谁也必须采取在教育心理学课程。 例如，目前教师教育项目中80名高年级学生中有80%选修了心理学导论。其中12名具有心理学背景的学生正准备在实验室科学（心理学，生物学，化学或物理学）中教授K-12。 在1996-97学年，有150名学生申请入读师范教育课程，表明该课程的强劲增长。 因此，调查实验室在心理学导论中的潜在影响力非常高。 导师将跟随一组入门学生的实验室轮换，教学，培养学生的探究，帮助学生在学习过程中，并评估他们的工作。该项目的目标是：1）从第一门课程开始，在大学水平上教授心理学作为调查实验室科学，2）鼓励对大学或中学教学感兴趣的学生，将心理学作为调查科学教授，3）鼓励学生作为图书馆，实验室和现场的研究社区共同努力，（4）设计一种可推广的模式，以促进其他高校研究性实验科学的建设。