Using a Crime Lab Model to Enhance Undergraduate Science Education

使用犯罪实验室模型加强本科科学教育

• 批准号: 0633686
• 负责人: Phoebe Stubblefield
• 金额: $ 14.88万
• 依托单位: University of North Dakota Main Campus
• 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: 2007-03-01 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0633686&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Using; Crime; Lab; Model; Enhance

Interdisciplinary (99)Intellectual Merit: The University of North Dakota is enhancing its infrastructure for interdisciplinary STEM education to facilitate the entry of students into the sciences. We are creating a crime laboratory setting in which we use case based instruction, state-of-the-art technology, and professional guest speakers to teach forensic science. A new introductory course for non-majors provides a seamless lecture/laboratory approach to teaching the scientific method in the context of actual case studies. For majors, we have enhanced our upper division course to include new laboratory experiences along with the case approach. Our collaborations with the State's Attorney General's Office and the Midwestern Forensic Science Resources Consortium are enhancing our speakers series, our regional network, and our placement of students.To target the increased enrollment of American Indian students into the introductory course and the major, Forensic Science Club members are being trained to work with TRIO program staff and our Office of American Indian Student Support Services. Underserved students are thus exposed to student role models while forensic science majors are gaining valuable and diverse cultural experiences.The innovative linkage of laboratory experiences with case-based instruction in a professional setting is increasing the depth, richness, and realism of the learning experience, heightening the understanding of the process of scientific discovery, and encouraging hypothesis testing and critical thinking. The availability of state-of-the-art equipment to train undergraduates in the classroom, the laboratory, and the field, has significantly improved our ability to recruit students into the sciences, enhance student retention and success in STEM disciplines, and achieve program accreditation. The project is enhancing student learning in the STEM disciplines, making undergraduates more competitive for internships, research opportunities, graduate school, and for careers as scientists and professionals. The resulting improved ability to identify victims and criminals and solve crimes will contribute significantly to the public good.

跨学科（99）智力优势：北达科他州大学正在加强其跨学科STEM教育的基础设施，以促进学生进入科学。我们正在创建一个犯罪实验室环境，在其中我们使用基于案例的教学，最先进的技术和专业的客座讲师来教授法医学。一个新的非专业入门课程提供了一个无缝的讲座/实验室的方法来教实际案例研究的背景下的科学方法。对于专业，我们已经加强了我们的上师课程，包括新的实验室经验沿着与案例方法。我们与州总检察长办公室和中西部法医科学资源联盟的合作正在加强我们的演讲者系列，我们的区域网络，以及我们的学生安置。为了增加美国印第安学生的入学人数进入入门课程和专业，法医科学俱乐部成员正在接受培训，与TRIO计划工作人员和我们的美国印第安学生支持服务办公室合作。因此，服务不足的学生接触到学生的榜样，而法医学专业的学生正在获得宝贵的和多样化的文化experiences.The创新的实验室经验与基于案例的教学在专业设置的链接是增加学习经验的深度，丰富性和现实主义，提高科学发现的过程中的理解，并鼓励假设检验和批判性思维。国家的最先进的设备，以培养本科生在教室，实验室和现场的可用性，显着提高了我们招收学生进入科学，提高学生的保留和成功的STEM学科，并实现程序认证的能力。 该项目正在加强学生在STEM学科的学习，使本科生在实习，研究机会，研究生院以及科学家和专业人士的职业生涯中更具竞争力。由此提高的查明受害者和罪犯以及解决犯罪问题的能力将大大有助于公共利益。