Training Non-Majors in the Processes of Science: A Plan forLaboratory Education

该奖项为克莱姆森大学生物系购买设备提供资金。生物学非科学专业大一新生第一学期的实验室将转变为一种研究性的形式，在这种形式中，学生计划和执行原始实验，而不是遵循实验室手册的指示。生物学教育者通常赞同研究性实验室的概念，但实施研究性实验室的形式会带来许多困难。该部门计划通过结合湿地实验室实验和名为FISHFARM的水产养殖计算机模拟来解决这些长期存在的问题。他们将开发录像带“方法模块”来解决FISHFARM，这将允许学生构建一个连贯的实验程序，并给予他们信心和高阶过程技能来解决大的，多因素的问题。1987年9月，高等教育改善基金（教育部）资助了这个项目的所有方面，除了设备。该奖项将提供资金购买电脑和录像带播放器，以充分实施研究性实验室课程。受资助机构将与非联邦来源的NSF奖金相匹配。

This award provides funds to purchase equipment for the Department of Biology at Clemson University. The first semester laboratory for freshman non-science majors in biology will be converted to an investigative format in which students plan and execute original experiments rather than following directions in laboratory manuals. Biology educators generally endorse the concept of investigative laboratories, but implementing an investigative format entails numerous difficulties. This department plans to solve these long-standing problems by a combination of wetlab experiments and an aquaculture computer simulation called FISHFARM. They will develop videotape "methods modules" to address the FISHFARM which will allow students to construct a coherent program of experiments and give them the confidence and higher-order process skills to attack big, multi- factor problems. In September of 1987, the Fund for the Improvement of Post- Secondary Education (Department of Education) funded all aspects of this project except equipment. This award will provide funds to purchase computers and videocassette players to fully implement the investigative laboratory curriculum. The grantee institution is matching this NSF award with funds from non- Federal sources.