Equipment Enhancement for Introductory Psychology Laboratory

该项目资助学生工作站、网络服务器和教室设备，以显著加强和扩展心理学入门课程的实验室部分的能力，作为一半学生的科学分布要求。利用该设备，超文本可以整合来自讲座、实验室、图书馆和视频资源的资料，使它们既可以在15个实验室工作站使用，也可以通过校园网（宿舍和计算机工作室）提供给学生个人。这个教学实验室网络使得使用新的教学材料成为可能：QuickTime视频片段，动态过程的动画插图，以及一个易于访问的幻灯片文件，开销，以及目前分散在教师之间的图形。预期的效果有四个方面：让学生体验以前在入门阶段无法获得的方法；为更积极地探索心理学入门的方法和百科全书式的内容提供手段；教授网络图书馆资源的使用；并利用网络工作站收集、整理和显示数据的潜力，使学生有更多的时间来解释和考虑可能的替代假设。

This project funds student work stations, a network server, and classroom equipment to reinforce and expand dramatically the capabilities of the laboratory portion of an introductory psychology course that serves as the science distribution requirement for half of the student body. With this equipment, hypertext is used to integrate the materials from lecture, laboratory, library, and video resources, making them available both at 15 laboratory work stations and to individual students through the campus network (dormitories and computer work rooms). This instructional lab network makes it possible to use new types of pedagogical material: QuickTime video segments, animated illustrations of dynamic processes, and a readily accessible file of slides, overheads, and graphics currently scattered among faculty. The intended effect is fourfold: to give students experience with methodologies that were previously unavailable at the introductory level; to provide the means to explore more actively the methologies and often encyclopedic content of introductory psychology; to teach the use of network-available library resources; and to exploit the potential of networked stations to collect, collate, and display data so that students have more time for interpretation and consideration of possible alternative hypotheses.