Quantifying Biology in the Classroom (The FIU Q'BIC Implementation Plan)

课堂上的生物学量化（FIU QBIC 实施计划）

• 批准号: 7124074
• 负责人: Ophelia Inez Weeks
• 金额: $ 24.32万
• 依托单位: FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-18 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7124074
• 关键词: Area; Biological; Biological Models; Biological Process; Biological Sciences; Biology; CCL7 gene; Calculi; Chemicals; Chemistry; Class; Commit; Communication; Computer software; Data; Discipline; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Engineering; Enrollment; Ensure; Evaluation; Florida; Funding; Future; Genetic; Goals; Grant; Health; Institution; International; Knowledge; Learning; Mathematics; Measurable; Measurement; Measures; Methods; Mission; Modeling; Numbers; Organism; Outcome; Paper; Physics; Population; Problem Solving; Problem-Based Learning; Research; Research Personnel; Science; Scientist; Societies; Solutions; Students; System; Techniques; Translating; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Value of Life; Week; Work; base; career; cohort; concept; design; flu; innovation; interest; models and simulation; programs; research study; skills; sound; statistics; success; theories; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Florida International University (FIU) is an urban, doctoral-granting institution located in Miami, Florida's largest population center. FIU, with its current enrollment of over 70% underrepresented minority students (URMS), has a mission which includes "Health" as a primary strategic theme, and has a vested interest in ensuring that its undergraduate students are provided with the best possible foundational education in the biological sciences. FIU, a MARC U*STAR institution, submits its proposal to implement an innovative and strategically developed plan to quantify biology in the classroom (the Q'BIC Plan). Q'BIC is an integrated lock-step cohort program (a Block Program) which for the short term is being offered as a Quantitative Biology Track, with long-term intentions of being the format for our biology curriculum. Courses in the block have identified and coordinated areas of overlapping synergy. Groups of 25 students take these courses together and work within an integrated, conceptual framework. Teaching units within courses use active and cooperative learning techniques and problem based-learning concepts. The program integrates mathematics, statistics and computing such that data generated in the biology labs are used to teach statistical concepts and biological processes are used to illustrate mathematical techniques. Thus, Q'BIC scholars are able to see how mathematics can model biological processes. This connection is emphasized in the teachable units and shows how sound biological theories are generated. Q'BIC allows the teaching of mathematics and statistics from the perspective of interpreting experimental and observational measurements, motivates students to learn statistics and teaches them how to be scientists. Q'BIC is organized in two parts: Part 1 begins in the freshman year and continues through the sophomore year; Part 2 covers the junior and senior years. This block program has synchrony and is sequential. Q'BIC includes a capstone summer workshop following Part 1, which concentrates on modeling and simulation. Part 2 offers tailored upper level courses and encourages scholars to participate in funded research programs. Q'BIC has a well-developed formative and summative evaluation and assessment component that effectively and efficiently measures whether the objectives of the program are being met and, most importantly, measures whether Q'BIC scholars are actually learning. The overall goal of the Q'BIC Plan is that students finishing the program will have the skills needed to move fluidly among conceptual, analytical and quantitative approaches to solving biological problems, ultimately increasing the number of URMS who enter and complete biomedical graduate programs.

描述（由申请人提供）：佛罗里达国际大学（FIU）是位于佛罗里达州最大人口中心迈阿密的城市博士学位机构。 FIU目前的入学人数超过70％，代表人数不足的少数民族学生（URMS）的任务包括“健康”作为主要战略主题，并且具有既得利益，以确保其本科生在生物学科学中提供最好的基础教育。 FIU是一家Marc U*Star机构，提出了其提出的提议，以实施创新且战略性开发的计划，以量化课堂上的生物学（Q'BIC计划）。 Q'BIC是一个集成的锁定步骤队列程序（一个块计划），在短期内，它作为定量生物学轨道提供，长期意图是我们生物学课程的格式。该街区的课程已经确定并协调了重叠的协同作用。 25名学生的小组将这些课程一起参加，并在一个综合的概念框架中工作。 课程中的教学单位使用主动和合作的学习技术和基于问题的学习概念。该程序集成了数学，统计和计算，使生物学实验室中产生的数据用于教授统计概念，并使用生物学过程来说明数学技术。因此，Q'BIC学者能够看到数学如何模拟生物过程。在可教的单元中强调了这种联系，并显示了如何产生健全的生物学理论。 Q'BIC可以从解释实验和观察性测量的角度进行数学和统计学的教学，激励学生学习统计数据并教会他们如何成为科学家。 Q'BIC分为两个部分：第1部分始于新生，一直持续到大二年。第2部分涵盖了大三和高年级。该块程序具有同步，是顺序的。 Q'BIC在第1部分之后包括一个顶峰夏季研讨会，该研讨会集中在建模和模拟上。第2部分提供量身定制的上层课程，并鼓励学者参加资助的研究计划。 Q'BIC具有完善的形成性和总结性评估和评估组成部分，可有效有效地衡量是否满足程序的目标，最重要的是，衡量Q'BIC学者是否真的在学习。 Q'BIC计划的总体目标是，完成该计划的学生将具有在解决生物学问题的概念，分析和定量方法中流动所需的技能，最终增加了进入和完成生物医学研究生计划的URM的数量。