Quality Undergraduate Integration of Laboratory Technology

实验室技术质量本科一体化

• 批准号: 0837199
• 负责人: Rebecca Trueman
• 金额: $ 12.33万
• 依托单位: Concordia University Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0837199&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Quality; Undergraduate; Integration; Laboratory; Technology

Interdisciplinary (99) A GC/MS instrument is being vertically integrated into the undergraduate biology and chemistry curriculum, from freshman courses through senior level classes. Project-based and inquiry laboratory experiments using GC/MS are being introduced in a total of nine courses thereby serving to modernize the biology and chemistry curriculum. Student understanding of and ability to utilize technology to address scientific questions is enhanced through early exposure to the GC/MS instrumentation. Additionally, the instrument provides new opportunities for joint undergraduate student-faculty research, including interdisciplinary collaborative research.The laboratory improvements are being evaluated for their effectiveness in improving student attitudes and student learning. In each course, evaluations are determining the effectiveness of laboratories on overall learning of concepts, and examining the effectiveness of using GC/MS to elucidate a concept as compared with previous laboratory activities. These assessments are adding to the body of data on the effectiveness of project-based laboratories as teaching tools at all levels of undergraduate education.

跨学科（99）GC/MS仪器正在垂直整合到本科生物学和化学课程，从大一课程到高年级课程。 使用GC/MS的基于项目和探究实验室实验正在引入总共九门课程，从而使生物和化学课程现代化。 通过早期接触GC/MS仪器，学生对技术的理解和利用技术解决科学问题的能力得到增强。 此外，该仪器还为本科生与教师的联合研究提供了新的机会，包括跨学科的合作研究。正在评估实验室的改进在改善学生态度和学生学习方面的有效性。 在每门课程中，评估是确定实验室对整体概念学习的有效性，并检查使用GC/MS来阐明概念的有效性，与以前的实验室活动相比。 这些评估增加了关于基于项目的实验室作为各级本科教育教学工具的有效性的数据。