Inquiry Tools for Case-Based Courses in Human Biology

生物科学(61)这个项目致力于让初级生物学学生参与批判性思维和解决问题的需要，并使生物学的主题对所有学生来说更令人兴奋和相关。该项目的产品包括1)人类生物学案例库，这是一套强大的医学院案例研究的本科生界面，以及2)一套基于案例使用的探究式课程材料。这些产品培养了积极的学习体验，促进了协作学习，增加了科学教育的探究性。我们的目标是使哈佛医学院收集的、适合本科生教育的大量病例变得易懂。人类生物学案例图书馆为任何有网络浏览器的学生带来了先进的计算基础设施，并提供了一套基于大量人类生物学案例的互动工具。这种对多种人类案例、原始文档和分析工具的访问为促进学生探究提供了丰富的环境。生物入门课服务于大量的大学生，包括非专业的学生和许多未来的教师。汉普郡学院将非电子形式的医学院案例改编成本科课程已经有六年了。正在开发的软件将支持原有教室的探究活动，并正在更多的教室进行测试。作为概念验证，正在实施三个案例，并在各种专上机构(例如，社区学院和大型大学)和各种教学风格(例如，传统的以讲授为基础的大课堂和以案例为基础的小班)中测试其有效性。我们正在研究比较不同院校学生表现的困难。与教师的密切沟通促进了模块的使用，并通过学生和教师的成果研究、访谈和对态度和内容学习变化的评估来测试其有效性。在明确界定的人群中正在使用严格的方法来分析结果。该材料将提交给BioQUEST并由其审查。

Biological Sciences (61)This project addresses the need to engage introductory biology students in critical thinking and problem solving and to make topics in biology more exciting and relevant for all students. The products from this project include 1) the Human Biology Case Library, an undergraduate interface to a powerful suite of medical school case studies and 2) a set of inquiry-based curricular materials based on the use of the cases. These products foster active learning experiences, promote collaborative learning and increase the inquiry-orientation of science education. We aim to make accessible a tremendous variety and quantity of cases that have been collected at Harvard Medical School and adapted for undergraduate education. The Human Biology Case Library brings the advanced computational infrastructure to any student with a web browser and provides a suite of interactive tools based on a number of human biology cases. This access to a multiplicity of human cases, source documents and analysis tools provides a rich environment for promoting student inquiry. Introductory biology classes serve a great number of college students, including non-majorsand many future teachers. Medical school cases in non-electronic form have been adapted for undergraduate classes for six years at Hampshire College. The software being developed will support inquiry activities in the original classroom and is being tested in additional classrooms. Three cases are being implemented as a proof of concept, and their effectiveness is being tested in a variety of post-secondary institutions (e.g., a community college and large university) and within a variety of teaching styles (e.g., traditional large lecture-based and small case-based classes). We are examining the difficulties of comparing student performance across institutions. Close communication with faculty is facilitating the use of the modules and testing their effectiveness through student and faculty outcome studies, interviews and evaluation of changes in attitude and content learning. Rigorous methodologies are being used among well-defined populations to analyze outcomes. This material will be submitted to and reviewed by BioQUEST.