NSF Symposium: Innovations in the Undergraduate Curriculum

化学（12）三个专题讨论会题为“NSF催化创新的本科课程，”正在组织和召开的秋季全国会议的美国化学学会将于2005年，2006年和2007年在华盛顿，华盛顿特区，旧金山弗朗西斯科，加利福尼亚州和波士顿，马萨诸塞州，分别。 这个项目延续了1987年开始的传统，在这个传统中，由NSF本科教育部支持的专题讨论会已经成为美国化学学会秋季全国会议化学教育计划部的一部分。知识价值新的专题讨论会突出了由课程，课程和实验室实施-适应和实施（CCLI-A& I）计划支持的项目，因此，包括演示文稿，其特点是仪器是相对较新的本科实验室，创新的实验室练习和实践的发展，创新的课程材料的发展，新技术纳入课程和/或实验室，已负责化学课程的主要课程变化的项目，这些研讨会为CCLI-A I成功的项目提供了一&种向广大受众传播的手段。参加全国会议的教师经常参加处理他们的研究领域的会议，而牺牲了那些处理科学教育问题的会议。专题讨论会提供了一个论坛，可以在相对紧凑的时间内在一个地点提供有价值的信息。在专题讨论会上进行的个人接触可在以后进行。作为该项目的一部分，正在建立一个新的网站，可以在一个网站上收集有关本科课程中各种创新的适当项目，NSF计划以及部门和个人成果。 正在进行新的评估工作，以确定研讨会在促进课程改革方面的有效性。

Chemistry (12) Three Symposia entitled "NSF Catalyzed Innovations in the Undergraduate Curriculum," are being organized and convened at the Fall National Meetings of the American Chemical Society to be held in the years 2005, 2006, and 2007 in Washington, DC, San Francisco, CA, and Boston, MA, respectively. This project continues a tradition begun in 1987 in which Symposia featuring projects supported by the Division of Undergraduate Education at the NSF have been a part of the Division of Chemical Education Program at the Fall National Meetings of the American Chemical Society.Intellectual MeritThe new Symposia highlight projects supported by the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement-Adaptation and Implementation (CCLI-A&I) Program, and, as such, include presentations that feature instrumentation that is relatively new to the undergraduate laboratory, development of innovative laboratory exercises and practices, development of innovative curricular materials, incorporation of new technologies into the curriculum and/or the laboratory, projects that have been responsible for major curricular changes in the chemistry program, and projects that have been responsible for major curricular changes in an entire science program.Broader ImpactThese Symposia provide a means of dissemination for successful CCLI-A&I projects to a broad audience. Faculty attending National Meetings often attend sessions dealing with their research areas at the expense of those dealing with science education issues. The Symposia provide a forum in which valuable information can be presented in a relatively compact timeframe and at one location. Personal contacts made at the Symposia can be pursued at a later time. A new website being established as a part of this project allows the collection at one site of appropriate projects, NSF programs, and department and individual results concerning a wide variety of innovations in the undergraduate curriculum. New assessment efforts are being undertaken in order to ascertain the effectiveness of the Symposia in promoting curricular change.