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Goals of project
Many students approach their introductory science courses with a check-box mentality, and enrolling means learning isolated facts. This restricted goal does not capture the intellectual excitement of science nor the relevance of science to students' personal lives. Low appeal and retention rates have contributed to national shortages of scientists, medical researchers and engineers. The combined goals of our initiatives described below are to attract, retain and help students succeed in science. Students in their first two years in college will experience the excitement of discovery, the joy of asking questions about how the universe works, and the satisfaction that they can use their scientific skills to help make a difference in this world.
To sense a scale of the project, here are two charts showing the numbers of ISU undergraduates who have participated in reformed inquiry lab courses, or in lab courses where they have completed an extended, several week, original research project.
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Components
- Research projects in lab-courses
- Inquiry labs;
- HHMI--ISU Summer of Research
- [Interdisciplinary course on sustainability]
- Faculty Learning Communities
- Postdoc Science Teaching Scholars
Upcoming Visitors
- Mar 22, 2012, Dr. David Sanders, Purdue University
Previous Visitors
- Dec 1, 2011, Michael Schatz
- May 5, 2011 (10am, N008 Lagomarcino) - Dr. Pat Woodward, Ohio State
- May 2, 2011 (10am, N008 Lagomarcino) - Dr Cheryl Bailey, POGIL, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- April 28, 2011 - Dr. Tom Hickson, University of St. Thomas
- April 25, 2011 - Corinne Zimmerman, Illinois State University
- April 22, 2011 - Dr. Michael Wysession, hosted by Geology, Washington University in St. LouisMarch 31, 2011 - Dr. Tim Slater, University of Wyoming
- April 22, 2011 (4pm, 1414 MBB) - Dr Bill Wood, hosted by GDCB, University of Colorado, Boulder "Changing the way we teach: why we should and how we can."