Improvement of ND Tribal College Chemistry Instruction

ND部落学院化学教学的改进

• 批准号: 6521452
• 负责人: CHARMANE F DISRUD
• 金额: $ 25.31万
• 依托单位: TURTLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-01 至 2005-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6521452
• 关键词: Internet; Native Americans; career; chemistry; computer assisted instruction; curriculum; education evaluation /planning; health science profession; health science research; health science research potential; minority institution research support; science education; teacher; training; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The tribal colleges in North Dakota are essential for meeting the needs of educating health professionals on their respective reservations. Chemistry, a required course for nearly all health professions, often limits the number of students who enter these fields. Lack of familiarity to content may be one of the reasons for poor performance. This project will design experiments that make chemistry more interesting and relevant to Native American students. The five tribal college chemistry instructors along with chemistry professors from North Dakota State University and Lake Region State College, will develop culturally sensitive lecture and laboratory curriculum materials for their Introductory Organic and Biochemistry courses based on traditional plants, including those used for medicine. They will also add curriculum elements to their Introductory Inorganic Chemistry courses built around the high interest area of water analysis. The students who take this course will be monitored for three years. The chemistry instructors and six interested Native American students will meet each summer at North Dakota State University to design and test new lab experiments using plants and reservation waters. They will gather the plants that are well-known to the elders of all of the tribes and will employ these elders to teach them how to identify, harvest, and use the plants. They will present their work at conferences. A chemistry professor who currently teaches at North Dakota State University will direct the summer institutes and will also deliver the first Introductory Organic and Biochemistry course over Interactive Video Network (IVN) to all of the tribal colleges. The following two years will be taught over IVN by a tribal chemistry instructor.

描述（由申请人提供）：北达科他州的部落学院对于满足各自保留地卫生专业人员教育的需求至关重要。化学是几乎所有卫生专业的必修课，它往往限制了进入这些领域的学生人数。对内容不熟悉可能是性能不佳的原因之一。