Using Introductory Psychology Labs to Provide Early Research Experience to Regular and Transfer Students

利用入门心理学实验室为普通学生和转学生提供早期研究经验

• 批准号: 0633429
• 负责人: Michael Clump
• 金额: $ 9.12万
• 依托单位: Marymount University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-15 至 2010-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0633429&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Using; Introductory; Psychology; Labs; Provide

Psychology - Cognitive (73)This project is expanding on an earlier NSF-supported project at the College of St. Catherine, a liberal arts college for women ("Re-visioning General Psychology: Engaging Women in Scientific Questions," NSF Grant 0087926). The earlier project designed a revised course to adapt materials already developed to describe psychology as a science seeking answers to important questions that can be pursued with an array of strategies and methods. This expansion project is directed at three diverse groups of students (female, minority, and transfer students) and is also working to increase the overall scientific literacy of these three student groups, especially those who do not begin and end their education at one institution. Marymount University has a student population that is 70% female and 50% minority, with many transfer students. Psychology is a popular major and this project is a good opportunity to promote involvement and interest in science by minority students, many of whom are transfer students. The teaching materials developed are being made available to the academic community through publications, conferences, and on a web-site dedicated to the project. Materials posted on the web will be meta-tagged to ensure inclusion in the National Science Digital Library.The intellectual merit of this project has seven facets. 1. It develops scientific literacy and interest through access to research tools early in the students' undergraduate careers to enhance learning and scientific understanding. 2. It promotes scientific reasoning and problem-solving skills, especially for female, transfer and minority students. 3. It enhances students' perceptions of themselves as scientific thinkers. 4. It improves students' overall attitudes towards science and the scientific process. 5. It supports new transfer students by providing the opportunity for them to form relationships with other new students and with their lab instructors, thus facilitating their integration into the larger Departmental and University community. 6. It ensures that transfer students have an equivalent exposure to scientific thinking and scientific literacy to their non-transfer counterparts. 7. It fosters improved research skills and techniques of upper-division psychology students by providing them opportunities to mentor and tutor other undergraduate students. The broader impact of this project is the development of a model suitable for replication by other schools, especially for those schools with high percentages of minority and transfer students.

心理学-认知（73）这个项目是在早期的NSF支持的项目在圣凯瑟琳学院，一个文科女子学院（“重新审视一般心理学：从事妇女在科学问题，”NSF赠款0087926）的扩展。 早期的项目设计了一个修订的课程，以适应已经开发的材料，将心理学描述为一门寻求答案的科学，这些问题可以通过一系列策略和方法来解决。 这一扩展项目针对三个不同的学生群体（女生、少数民族学生和转学生），并努力提高这三个学生群体的总体科学素养，特别是那些不在一个机构开始开始和结束教育的学生。玛丽蒙特大学的学生人口是70%的女性和50%的少数民族，有许多转学生。 心理学是一个受欢迎的专业，这个项目是一个很好的机会，以促进参与和少数民族学生，其中许多是转学生对科学的兴趣。 编写的教学材料正通过出版物、会议和专门用于该项目的网站提供给学术界。 在网上发布的材料将被元标记，以确保纳入国家科学数字图书馆。1.它通过在学生的本科生涯早期获得研究工具来培养科学素养和兴趣，以加强学习和科学理解。2.它促进科学推理和解决问题的技能，特别是对女生、转学生和少数民族学生。3.它增强了学生对自己作为科学思想家的看法。4.它改善了学生对科学和科学过程的整体态度。5.它支持新的转学生，为他们提供机会，形成与其他新生和他们的实验室教师的关系，从而促进他们融入更大的部门和大学社区。6.它确保转学生与非转学生有同等的科学思维和科学素养。7.它通过为他们提供指导和辅导其他本科生的机会，促进了高年级心理学学生的研究技能和技术的提高。这一项目的更广泛影响是制定了一个适合其他学校，特别是少数民族和转学生比例高的学校效仿的模式。