Improving Student Understanding and Retention through Investigative Laboratories in Biotechnology

通过生物技术研究实验室提高学生的理解和保留

• 批准号: 0088301
• 负责人: Gary Fortier
• 金额: $ 3.67万
• 依托单位: Delaware Valley University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-06-01 至 2003-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0088301&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Student; Understanding; Retention; through

Biological Sciences (61) .While the techniques of biotechnology have become quite standard, the application of biotechnology to solve "real world" problems is widely diverse and sophisticated. Unfortunately, the exposure most students have to biotechnology during their academic career is largely theoretical and is incorporated into lecture courses rather than laboratory courses. Those techniques that are taught in laboratories tend to be routine and lack connection to contemporary research topics of interest to students. This project is focused on adapting the techniques of biotechnology to the special needs of agricultural biology and wildlife management. The animal science curriculum will be expanded to include investigative, hands-on laboratories centered around wildlife management, animal tracking, selective breeding, pathology and disease, clinical animal pathology, small animal management, and dairy and livestock improvement. The establishment of a student molecular biology laboratory will also increase the number of students participating in laboratory courses taught in collaboration with Thomas Jefferson University and researchers from the Thomas Jefferson Center for Biomedical Research located on the Delaware Valley College campus.

生物科学（61）.虽然生物技术已成为相当标准的技术，但应用生物技术解决“真实的世界”问题的方法是多种多样和复杂的。不幸的是，大多数学生在学术生涯中接触生物技术主要是理论性的，并被纳入讲座课程，而不是实验室课程。这些在实验室教授的技术往往是常规的，缺乏与学生感兴趣的当代研究课题的联系。该项目的重点是使生物技术适应农业生物学和野生动物管理的特殊需要。动物科学课程将扩大到包括调查，动手实验室围绕野生动物管理，动物跟踪，选择性育种，病理学和疾病，临床动物病理学，小动物管理，奶牛和牲畜改良。学生分子生物学实验室的建立还将增加参加与托马斯杰斐逊大学和位于特拉华州山谷学院校园的托马斯杰斐逊生物医学研究中心的研究人员合作教授的实验室课程的学生数量。