This project will implement an interactive video laboratory based on IBM and Macintosh computers, CD-ROM and laserdisc players and videodisc for use in undergraduate science education. It focuses on increasing scientific literacy and sophistication among undergraduates, including significant numbers of non-traditional, women and minority students who are typically underrepresented these fields. Faculty will incorporate interactive video technology into teaching in the following areas: biology, chemistry, and physics. The equipment will give students, including elementary and secondary teachers and non-science majors who need to meet science requirements for certification and degree-completion, the opportunity to focus on critical thinking as it relates to scientific study: formulating and testing hypotheses; solving problems; making decisions. Because of the ability of the technology to replicate experiments which faculty could not otherwise do, the equipment will enable students to have a wider variety of laboratory experiences and multiple opportunities to hypothesize, test and revise than conventional laboratory experiments would allow. It would constitute a more "user- friendly" approach to science because it would alleviate fears about working in a laboratory and, particularly for future teachers, it would model for them active learning strategies and use of technology which is becoming widely available in the Kansas City school districts.

Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Institute
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Type
Standard Grant (Standard)
Application #
9352536
Program Officer
Herbert H. Richtol
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
1993-05-01
Budget End
1995-10-31
Support Year
Fiscal Year
1993
Total Cost
$31,726
Indirect Cost
Name
Avila University
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Kansas City
State
MO
Country
United States
Zip Code
64145