Interactive Multimedia for Developing Ciritical Thinking in Biology Based on the New Benchmarks Curriculum Model

今天的人体解剖学和生理学教育受到三个现实的限制：1)标准教材定义的覆盖范围很大，而且还在扩大；2)即使是对一个身体系统的深入理解，也需要相当长的时间和技能来培养；3)大多数学生对那种能够产生深入理解的学习准备不足。在我们目前的ccd项目中，我们制定了一项新的基准课程，以解决这些事实。很明显，人们对我们的课程非常感兴趣，但许多教师发现，很难大幅偏离标准的A&P课程，因为他们无法为学生提供足够形式的支持。商业教科书往往是A&P事实上的课程标准，因为它们是主要的学习支持资源。这一标准需要广泛但肤浅的覆盖。现在，多媒体光盘正在成为教科书的中心辅助资源。然而，他们的设计受到教科书课程模式的很大影响。我们提出了一种新的多媒体资源，因为我们希望利用这种新媒体的力量和吸引力来帮助教师摆脱传统课程，选择一条替代途径。我们的新基准课程就是这样一种选择，培养学生对深度内容的掌握，以及学生成功应用A&P知识所需的批判性思维和解决问题的技能。如果没有良好的多媒体支持，许多学生可能无法获得这些技能。我们相信这个项目有可能极大地放大我们新的NSF支持的基准课程的影响。该项目与纽约市立大学教师培训项目建立了正式联系，该项目是NSF卓越教师培训合作项目。将为教师举办讲习班，帮助他们将制作的模块纳入为学生或准备成为教师的学生设计的课程中。NSF表格1358(1/94)

Human Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) education today is constrained by three realities: 1) the area of coverage as defined by the standard texts is large and expanding, 2) in- depth understanding of even one body systems takes considerable time and skill to develop and 3) most students are poorly prepared for the kind of learning that generates in-depth understanding. In our current CCD project we have developed a new Benchmarks Curriculum which addresses these facts. It has become apparent that there is significant interest in our curriculum, but many instructors find departing significantly from the standard A&P curriculum difficult because they cannot offer adequate forms of support to their students. Commercial text books have tended to set the de facto curriculum standard in A&P because they are the major learning support resource. This standard entails extensive but superficial coverage. Now, multimedia CD-ROM's are emerging as the central ancillary resource to the textbooks. Their design, however, is heavily influenced by the curricular model of the textbooks. We are proposing a new multimedia resource because we would like to use the power and appeal of this new medium to help instructors break away from the traditional curriculum and choose an alternate pathway. Our new Benchmarks Curriculum is such an alternative, fostering the development of in-depth content mastery along with the critical thinking and problem solving skills students need to successfully apply their A&P knowledge. Without good multimedia support, many students will probably be unable to obtain those skills. We believe this project has the potential to greatly amplify the impact of our new NSF supported Benchmarks Curriculum. The project has developed formal ties with the CUNY project in teacher preparation, an NSF Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation. Workshops will be conducted for faculty to help them incorporate modules produced into courses designed for or including students who are preparing to be teachers. NSF FORM 1358 (1/94)