CREATE: Teaching Biology undergraduates how to analyze the primary literature and think creatively about science

创建：教授生物学本科生如何分析原始文献并创造性地思考科学

• 批准号: 0311117
• 负责人: Sally Hoskins
• 金额: $ 19.83万
• 依托单位: CUNY City College
• 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: 2003-09-01 至 2006-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0311117&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CREATE; Teaching; Biology; undergraduates; how

(Biological Sciences (61) This project is creating a new textbook that uses guided analysis of related sets of journal articles as a basis for constructing biological understanding through deep analysis of individual lines of biological research. The method of accomplishing this task: Consider, Read, Elucidate, Analyze and Think of an Experiment (CREATE), helps students learn how to read and understand primary literature, and simultaneously challenges them to think for themselves, develop their own interpretations, and independently design new hypotheses and thought-experiments. The course also includes interviews with the scientists involved in the research, using interview questions contributed by students themselves. The broader impacts of the project are threefold: First, the CREATE method will foster the development of transferable understanding, as students are able to apply the approaches learned in the course to numerous other situations requiring analytical and interpretive skills. Second, we have chosen to highlight work coming from the labs of at least two highly successful female scientists. Women remain underrepresented at higher levels of academic science, and we believe that studying the work of, and learning about the experiences of, these women will provide inspiration to female students. Finally, the CREATE method provides all participating students, not only those who pursue research careers, with a deeper understanding of the scientific process. As decisions about scientific research have increasingly become part of public policy, we believe it is essential for undergraduate education to contribute to a scientifically literate populace. The project is an adaptation of Readings in Developmental Neurobiology (Purves and Patterson, 1982), a collection of journal articles published on neural development.

(生物科学(61)这个项目正在编写一本新的教科书，它使用对相关期刊文章的指导性分析，作为通过深入分析生物学研究的个别路线来构建生物学理解的基础。完成这一任务的方法：思考、阅读、阐明、分析和思考一个实验(CREATE)，帮助学生学习如何阅读和理解初级文献，同时挑战他们独立思考，发展他们自己的解释，并独立设计新的假设和思维实验。这门课程还包括对参与研究的科学家进行采访，使用学生自己提出的面试问题。该项目的更广泛的影响有三个方面：第一，Create方法将促进可转移理解的发展，因为学生能够将在课程中学到的方法应用于许多其他需要分析和解释技能的情况。其次，我们选择突出至少两位非常成功的女科学家的实验室工作。在较高级别的学术科学中，女性的代表性仍然很低，我们相信，研究这些女性的工作并了解她们的经验将为女学生提供灵感。最后，CREATE方法使所有参与的学生，不仅仅是那些追求研究事业的学生，对科学过程有了更深的理解。随着有关科学研究的决策日益成为公共政策的一部分，我们认为本科教育为具有科学素养的民众做出贡献是至关重要的。该项目改编自《发育神经生物学》(Purves and Patterson，1982)的读物，这是一本关于神经发育的期刊论文集。