Institution-Wide Reform of Science Laboratories at Mount Holyoke

圣荷里大学科学实验室的机构范围的改革这个为期三年的机构范围的项目旨在提高学生使用、评估和评价科学结果和方法的能力，以及提高他们科学分析和研究的数学和统计的复杂性。芒特霍利奥克大学的一个由20多名科学教员组成的小组建议通过审查和修改大多数入门和核心科学课程的实验室来做到这一点。其目的将是建设实验室，不仅教授技术，而且1)发展学生提出有趣的、可测试的问题的能力，这些问题使学生能够洞察研究中的现象；2)强调并增强学生使用形式推理、数学和统计从可测试的假设中进行推断的能力。除了修订实验室外，该项目还将通过改变一年级和二年级数学和统计课程的部分内容，将新实验室用作范例的背景和来源，以及通过最大限度地利用不同科学课程的实验室之间的接触点，来支持培养学生成熟度的努力。

Institution-Wide Reform of Science Laboratories at Mount HolyokeThis three year institution-wide project aims to increase both the ability of students to use, evaluate, and value scientific results and methods and also the mathematical and statistical sophistication of their scientific analysis and inquiry. A group of more than twenty science faculty members at Mount Holyoke propose to do this by review and revision of laboratories in most introductory and core science courses. The aim will be to construct laboratories which not only teach technique, but which 1) develop students' ability to ask interesting, testable questions which give insight into the phenomena under study, and 2) underscore and enhance students' ability to use formal reasoning, mathematics and statistics to draw inferences from testable hypotheses. In addition to revising labs, the project will support the effort to build students' sophistication by changing parts of first and second year mathematics and statistics courses to use the new labs as contexts and sources of examples, and by maximizing points of contact between labs in different science courses.