CCLI Expansion: Investigative Psychophysiology Laboratory Experiences for Community Colleges

心理学-生物（71），心理学-认知（73）在先前工作的基础上，圣奥拉夫学院和伊塔斯卡社区学院正在开展一个为期两年的项目，有两个主要目标。首先是帮助教师将一套研究性心理生理学实验经验与他们的教学大纲和心理学入门教材相结合。第二是开发一个可复制的全国研讨会模式，培训社区大学教师将这些经验纳入他们的课程。最初的项目研讨会包括10名参与的教师，向教师介绍社区大学背景下的科学心理生理学研究。根据对最初讲习班成果的形成性评价，对讲习班材料进行了修订，来自全国五个地区的40名新的社区大学教师代表参加了第二个为期两天的讲习班。利用第一次讲习班修订后的活动，第一次讲习班的10名参与者作为40名新教师的导师和教练。在项目的第二年，所有50名社区大学教师将在他们的课堂上使用讲习班的材料。有关教师和学生成果的数据是从这些教室以及匹配的对照班级收集的，这些班级由未参加讲习班的教师授课。就广泛的影响而言，该项目将为教师制定一个全国性的研讨会模式，以介绍心理生理学调查实验室活动，这些活动不仅在社区学院有用，而且在其他高等教育机构也有用。这些研讨会将帮助教师与学生接触科学的方法，批判性地思考他们的工作，并发展从事科学研究的能力。该项目将培养一批新的研究人员，他们将为新的研究做出贡献，并扩大研究基地。

Psychology - Biological (71), Psychology - Cognitive (73)Building on prior work, St. Olaf College and Itasca Community College are conducting a two-year project with two main objectives. The first is to help teachers integrate a set of investigative psychophysiology lab experiences with their syllabi and introductory psychology textbooks. The second is to develop a replicable national workshop model to train community college teachers to incorporate such experiences into their courses. The initial project workshop, including 10 participant teachers, introduces faculty to scientific psychophysiological research in the community college context. Based on formative evaluation of the initial workshop results, the workshop materials are revised and forty new community college teachers, representative of colleges from five regions of the country, participate in a second two-day workshop. Using the revised activities from the first workshop, the ten participants from the first workshop act as mentor-coaches for the forty new teachers. During the second year of the project all fifty community college teachers will make use of the workshop materials in their classrooms. Data on teacher and student outcomes are collected from these classrooms, as well as from matched control classes, taught by instructors who did not participate in the workshops.In terms of broad impact, the project will develop a national workshop model for teachers to introduce psychophysiology investigative laboratory activities that should be useful not only in community colleges, but also in other higher education institutions. The workshops will assist teachers to engage their students with the scientific approach, think critically about their work, and develop competence to do scientific research. The project will lead to a new pool of researchers who will contribute to new research, and expand the research base.