LabWrite: Instructional Modules Utilizing the Lab Report to Help Students Write and Visualize Science

LabWrite：利用实验报告帮助学生书写和可视化科学的教学模块

• 批准号: 9950405
• 负责人: Michael Carter
• 金额: $ 8.73万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-01 至 2001-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9950405&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: LabWrite; Instructional; Modules; Utilizing; Lab

An interdisciplinary faculty team from the University is leading a 12-month planning effort to lay the basis for developing four commercially publishable instructional modules that better utilize the lab report to prepare undergraduates in the practice of scientific thinking and communication, both verbal and visual. In different combinations of hard copy, web-based, and/or CD-ROM format, each module is aimed at a specific population concerned with the lab report assignment: undergraduates (including pre-service teachers), graduate teaching assistants, faculty, and their respective institutional centers for teaching and learning. During this 1-year effort, the PIs are engaged in: (1) characterizing the precise national need for these materials in order to refine the approach most suitable to meet those needs; (2) creating, piloting, revising, and field-testing a prototype of LabWrite for Teaching Assistants; (3) building relationships with potential commercial publishers; and (4) seeking further funding for full-scale development. Most of the content for this module will be developed during the Summer 1999, piloted in introductory Chemistry sections and transformed into web-based prototypes during the Fall 1999, and field-tested in this web-based format in introductory Chemistry, Engineering, Geology, and Zoology sections in Spring 2000. PIs include three nationally recognized researchers in the rhetoric of science and technology and writing across the curriculum as well as a graphics communication researcher from the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education. The project team will work with an advisory committee of science, engineering, and design faculty from the University and with two distinguished faculty from MIT (Leslie Perelman) and University of Michigan Leslie Olsen who are leading efforts (one NSF-funded) at their own institutions to reform instruction in scientific and technical communication. The LabWrite Series is being designed to reach all majors in lab-based science and engineering courses, including pre-service teachers and graduate teaching assistants preparing to become faculty. Much of their content of LabWrite is intended to be designed for web- and CD-ROM-based delivery.

该大学的一个跨学科教师团队正在领导一项为期 12 个月的规划工作，为开发四个可商业出版的教学模块奠定基础，这些模块可以更好地利用实验室报告，为本科生进行科学思维和口头和视觉交流的实践做好准备。每个模块以硬拷贝、基于网络和/或 CD-ROM 格式的不同组合针对与实验室报告作业相关的特定人群：本科生（包括职前教师）、研究生助教、教师及其各自的教学机构中心。在这一年的努力中，PI 致力于：(1) 准确描述国家对这些材料的需求，以完善最适合满足这些需求的方法； (2) 为助教创建、试点、修改和现场测试 LabWrite 原型； (3) 与潜在的商业出版商建立关系； (4) 为全面发展寻求更多资金。该模块的大部分内容将在 1999 年夏季开发，在介绍性化学部分进行试点，并在 1999 年秋季转化为基于网络的原型，并于 2000 年春季在介绍性化学、工程、地质学和动物学部分以这种基于网络的格式进行现场测试。PI 包括三名在科学技术修辞和跨课程写作方面获得国家认可的研究人员以及来自 数学、科学和技术教育系。该项目团队将与该大学的一个由科学、工程和设计教师组成的咨询委员会以及来自麻省理工学院（莱斯利·佩雷尔曼）和密歇根大学莱斯利·奥尔森的两位杰出教师合作，他们正在各自的机构中领导改革科学和技术传播教学的工作（其中一位由国家科学基金会资助）。 LabWrite 系列旨在覆盖基于实验室的科学和工程课程的所有专业，包括职前教师和准备成为教师的研究生助教。 LabWrite 的大部分内容旨在设计用于基于 Web 和 CD-ROM 的交付。