LabWrite: A National Web-Based Initiative to Use the Lab Report to Improve the Way Students Write, Visualize, and Understand Science

LabWrite：一项基于网络的国家计划，旨在使用实验室报告改善学生写作、可视化和理解科学的方式

• 批准号: 0231086
• 负责人: Michael Carter
• 金额: --
• 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: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-01-15 至 2007-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0231086&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: LabWrite; National; Web; Based; Initiative

Hundreds of thousands of student and faculty hours are devoted annually in the U.S. to the undergraduate science lab report, an exercise reflecting and perpetuating many of the shortcomings in science education identified in such reports as the NRC's 1999 Transforming Undergraduate Education in SMET. With comparatively small development and dissemination costs, our project team (from science communication, scientific visualization, botany, chemistry, and physics) is attempting to harness this ubiquitous activity to improve the way students write, visualize, and understand science. Our first goal is to revise and disseminate for national use our online prototype, developed, piloted, and assessed through our one-year NSF-CCLI grant in 2000-01. LabWrite, a series of instructional and faculty development modules, encourages and enhances use of the lab report so that students and instructors can take advantage of the opportunities it offers to develop and expand students' scientific literacy. Our second goal is to build an instructional infrastructure for improving the teaching and learning experience of the laboratory nationwide. Materials and faculty workshops are being piloted within physics, chemistry, and biology courses at NC State and at a small liberal arts women's college, a historically black university, a community college, and a large, comprehensive university. Once fully tested and revised, we anticipate publishing LabWrite as a supplement to science textbooks as well as a comprehensive interactive package for a variety of lab classes.

在美国，每年有数十万名学生和教职员工花在本科生科学实验室报告上，这一工作反映并延续了NRC 1999年的SMET本科生教育转型等报告中指出的许多科学教育方面的缺陷。我们的项目团队(从科学传播、科学可视化、植物学、化学和物理学)以相对较小的开发和传播成本，试图利用这一无处不在的活动来改善学生撰写、可视化和理解科学的方式。我们的第一个目标是修改和传播我们的在线原型，供全国使用，开发、试验和评估我们在2000-01年度为期一年的NSF-CCLI拨款。LabWite是一系列教学和教师发展模块，鼓励和加强对实验报告的使用，以便学生和教师能够利用它提供的机会来发展和扩大学生的科学素养。我们的第二个目标是建立一个教学基础设施，以改善全国实验室的教学体验。材料和教员研讨会正在北卡罗来纳州立大学的物理、化学和生物课程中试行，并在一所小型文科女子学院、一所历史悠久的黑人大学、一所社区学院和一所大型综合性大学进行试点。一旦完全测试和修订，我们预计将出版LabWite作为科学教科书的补充，以及各种实验课程的全面互动包。