A New Approach to Introductory College Biology

大学生物学入门的新方法

• 批准号: 9653165
• 负责人: Beth Montelone
• 金额: $ 9.67万
• 依托单位: Kansas State University
• 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: 1997-01-01 至 1999-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9653165&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: New; Approach; Introductory; College; Biology

This is a plan to improve and modernize the delivery and content of a large-enrollment introductory level biology course. We plan to adopt a studio approach to delivery of this course: sections of eighty students will work in teams of two or four with faculty and graduate students guiding the learning process. In place of the traditional formal lecture/laboratory model, the students will receive information from computer text, demonstrations, simulations, and hands-on experimentation. The studio stresses group work and student-driven learning. To make the general course more relevant to students, we plan to group them into studio sections by major and/or common interests. It is our hypothesis that the combination of interaction between students with similar goals and focus on relevant examples will improve learning and retention in our course. This may be particularly true for women, non-traditional students, and minorities. At other institutions where studio formats have been introduced into basic science courses, preliminary studies indicate improved performance in later, more advanced courses among those students who have taken the first course in studio form. We will disseminate the results of our project in several ways: 1 ) because course material will be placed on the World-Wide Web, it will be accessible at many locations. 2) We will prepare a manuscript for submission to educational journals describing our results. 3) We will attend regional and national educational meetings and present our model and report our findings.

这是一个计划，以改善和现代化的交付和内容的大招生介绍级生物课程。我们计划采用工作室的方法来提供这门课程：80名学生将在两个或四个团队中工作，教师和研究生指导学习过程。在传统的正式讲座/实验室模式的地方，学生将从计算机文本，演示，模拟和动手实验中获得信息。工作室强调小组工作和学生驱动的学习。 为了使一般课程更相关的学生，我们计划将他们分组到工作室部分的主要和/或共同利益。这是我们的假设，具有相似目标的学生之间的互动和专注于相关的例子相结合，将提高学习和保留在我们的课程。这对妇女、非传统学生和少数民族来说可能尤其如此。在基础科学课程中采用工作室形式的其他机构，初步研究表明，在第一次参加工作室形式课程的学生中，后期更高级课程的成绩有所提高。 我们将以几种方式传播我们项目的结果：1）由于课程材料将放在万维网上，因此可以在许多地方访问。2)我们将准备一份手稿提交给教育期刊描述我们的结果。3)我们将参加区域和国家教育会议，介绍我们的模型并报告我们的发现。