Developing critical understanding by teaching action research to undergraduate psychology students

Action research assumes the active engagement of the stakeholders, such as the community, in the research, and a multiple‐level process of reflection in order to evaluate and monitor the actions taken. This makes action research a suitable methodology to increase the critical understanding of the participants. In this paper we describe the challenge of teaching action research within the context of an undergraduate community health psychology module. The module was designed using principles from transformative learning, critical pedagogy and action learning. The module took place over one semester; and 15 students (13 females, two males) took part in it. We discuss the background to the module development and the alignment of the learning objectives with the teaching and assessment methods, and reflect upon the students’ experiences in the module and the learning outcomes. We conclude by addressing the major challenges involved in teaching action research to increase critical understanding: the ability to engage in deep learning of undergraduate psychology students; our role and expectations as tutors on the course; and the current higher education system in which action science yet has to find a place.     

A simple classroom teaching technique to help students understand Michaelis-Menten kinetics

A new, simple classroom technique helps cell biology students understand principles of Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics. A student mimics the enzyme and the student's hand represents the enzyme's active site. The catalytic event is the transfer of marbles (substrate molecules) by hand from one plastic container to another. As predicted, increases in marble concentration increase the number of marbles transferred per unit time (initial rate, V(0)) until the turnover number becomes rate limiting and V(0) approaches the maximum velocity (V(max)), as described by the Michaelis-Menten equation. With this demonstration, students visualize an important concept: the turnover number is constant and independent of marble concentration. A student assessment of this exercise showed that it helped students visualize the turnover number and V(max) but not K(m), the marble concentration at which V(0) is one-half V(max). To address the concept of K(m), we use supplemental laboratory and lecture exercises. This exercise with plastic containers and marbles is equally suited to demonstrate the kinetics of carrier-mediated membrane transport. We conclude that this exercise helps students visualize the turnover number and V(max) and gives students important insights into the kinetic parameters used to characterize the catalytic activity of enzymes and membrane transporters.     

研讨式教学法在本科日语教学中的应用研究

目前我国的大部分高校依旧遵循着传统教学模式,对创新性的人才的培养具有一定的束缚。本文从研讨式教学法的含义入手,对本科日语教学中研讨式教学法的应用进行分析,以期促进我国本科日语教学的水平和学生的日语专业技能。     

挖掘科研积累,丰富教学资源为本科教学服务——"实验室科研探究"大型选修课程的建设与实践

从设立目标、内容简介、建设过程和组织工作等方面，详细论述了“实验室科研探究”新课程的发展历程。由此，提出了将高校实验室科研积累转化为教学资源，更好地为本科教学服务的一种新途径。     

对本科教学工作水平评估的思考

教育部对普通高等本科院校进行本科教学工作水平评估是关系到学校生存与发展的重要工作,引起了各高校的高度关注。而全面、准确地解读和理解《普通高等学校本科教学工作水平评估指标体系》则是做好迎评工作的至关重要的一环。为此,我们特约请教育部教育教学评估中心专家、中国农业大学教授赵志鸿撰写此文,以期对各高校评估工作有所帮助。     

历史教学中民族关系问题的思考

民族问题是历史教学中一个必须涉及的重要问题，历史上的民族关系错综复杂，对这个问题的讲授要从历史唯物主义的角度出发，具体而全面地分析，目的是给学生一个正确的民族关系认知。     

关于高等院校音乐公共课教学改革的探讨

音乐教育在我国高校的素质教育中占有重要地位,但是目前我国高校的音乐教育却存在着一些不足,本文对此进行了分析,并从几个方面提出了高校音乐公共课教学改革的一些建议.     

Learning by teaching: undergraduate engineering students improving a community's response capability to an early warning system

This paper reports on a project in which students designed, constructed and tested a model of an existing early warning system with simulation of debris flow in a context of a landslide. Students also assessed rural community members’ knowledge of this system and subsequently taught them to estimate the time needed for evacuation of the community in the event of a landslide. Participants were four undergraduate students in a civil engineering programme at a university in Thailand, as well as nine community members and three external evaluators. Results illustrate project and problem-based, experiential learning and highlight the real-world applications and development of knowledge and of hard and soft skills. The discussion raises issues of scalability and feasibility for implementation of these types of projects in large undergraduate engineering classes.     

VIPP教学法在指导学生进行艾滋病课题研究中的应用

参与式可视性教学法（Visualisation in Participatory Programmes,简称VIVP）起源于成人教育理论和实践,它强调可视性与参与式的有机结合,应用此法指导学生进行艾滋病课题研究,可为学生创设一个开放的课堂,使学生真正融入到教学活动中并得到充分发展。     

基于研究性学习的本科计量经济学教学策略研究

研究性学习和本科计量经济学教学的整合是提升大学生创新和实践能力的有益探索。本文基于自身教学实践经验和体会总结了基于研究性学习的本科计量经济学教学策略,认为本科计量经济学研究性教学成功的基础是高水平的教师配置,关键是合理的教学安排,保障是科学的组织与管理。     

Enhancing undergraduate teaching and research with a Drosophila virginizing system

Laboratory exercises using Drosophila crosses are an effective pedagogical method to complement traditional lecture and textbook presentations of genetics. Undergraduate thesis research is another common setting for using Drosophila. A significant barrier to using Drosophila for undergraduate teaching or research is the time and skill required to accurately collect virgins for use in controlled crosses. Erroneously collecting males or nonvirgin females contaminates crosses with unintended genotypes and confounds the results. Collecting adequate numbers of virgins requires large amounts of time, even for those skilled in virgin collection. I have adapted an effective method for virgin collection that eliminates these concerns and is straightforward to use in undergraduate settings. Using a heat-shock-induced, conditional lethal transgene specifically in males, male larvae can be eliminated from a culture before adults eclose. Females thus eclose in the absence of males and remain virgin, eliminating the need to laboriously score and segregate freshly eclosed females. This method is reliable, easily adaptable to any desired phenotypic marker, and readily scaleable to provide sufficient virgins for large laboratory classes or undergraduate research projects. In addition, it allows instructors lacking Drosophila expertise to use this organism as a pedagogical tool.     

本科层次酒店礼仪课程的教学改革研究

本科层次的酒店管理专业有很强的实践性,其人才培养应倾向于服务应用型,偏重理论教育的酒店礼仪课程急需改革。该课程的教学应基于对接行业和专业启蒙的课程定位;明确能力为主的教学目标;设计突出应用的教学内容;创新学生为主的教学方法;建立强化实践的考核体系。     

Generating enthusiasm for undergraduate research by teaching futures-based problem-solving skills

This model is intended to generate enthusiasm for research that goes beyond the experience of the typical college “term-paper.” Framed in the context of introductory lectures on the basics of social science research within the global perspective of challenges futurists predict for the early years of the millennium, undergraduates are instructed to think in terms of problems related to the future world of criminal justice and sociology and asked later to submit and orally defend formal research proposals. Completed proposals may serve as the impetus for further research, or in exceptional cases may be further developed for publication or presentation.     

将科研成果引入本科教学实践环节的探索

适时地将一些科研项目内容引入到本科教学实验环节,是高校培养学生创新能力的一种重要形式。机械地将科研内容融入实验教学,往往因效果不理想而无疾而终。为避免这种情况发生,以电气专业的电机类实验为对象,设计了电机参数测试实验,并经3年左右的修改、完善,逐渐形成了较为合理的模式,并在学生培养中取得了一定的效果。     

专题：大学生创新能力培养——科研促教学 促进本科生创新能力的培养

通过长期从事科研与教学活动相结合的经验,阐述了科研与教学结合的必要性,结合山东农业大学农业生物学国家级教学示范中心科研促教学的做法,提出科研主体与教学主体的有机结合、通过实验室开放,培养本科生的科研兴趣同时,激发学生学习知识的热情、引导学生参与科研过程、加强师资队伍建设,是提高本科生实验教学质量的重要举措。     

建立本科生公共实验体系，加强实验教学环节

为更好适应人才培养的需要，建立本科生公共实验体系，加强实验教学环节，是培养本科生创新能力的一项有效措施。本文介绍了对食品科学技术学院本科生公共实验体系的建设与探索，同时结合实际情况，阐明了本科生公共实验体系在培养创新人才中的作用。     

本科全景继电保护教学研究与实践

继电保护是电力系统安全稳定运行必不可少的组成部分,继电保护课程融合了电力系统分析等多学科内容,具有学科交叉、概念抽象、理论复杂、不便自学等特点。该文分析了现有继电保护实践教学中存在的问题,提出了适应不同水平学生的全景继电保护教学模式,并以电磁暂态仿真软件PSCAD为基础开发了适用于本科阶段的全景继电保护教学平台。     

Approaches to learning by undergraduate students: A longitudinal study

The purpose of this study was to determine if the success of students at a highly selective combined baccalaureate/MD degree program is affected by their different approaches to learning. One hundred freshmen students at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine (UMKC) were surveyed using the Lancaster Approaches to Studying Inventory (short survey by Entwistle, 1981). Analysis of the data indicates that the learning styles of students from this combined-degree school tend to be similar to the learning styles of students from other baccalaureate-degree programs in medicine. It appears there are some relationships between approaches to learning and success in the program. This association between learning styles and success also appears to be related to gender differences.Presented at the Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research, Louisville, KY, May 13–16, 1990.