Department of Teaching and Learning, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2013 Jun 1;12(2):206-14. doi: 10.1187/cbe.12-08-0136.
University Modeling Instruction (UMI) is an approach to curriculum and pedagogy that focuses instruction on engaging students in building, validating, and deploying scientific models. Modeling Instruction has been successfully implemented in both high school and university physics courses. Studies within the physics education research (PER) community have identified UMI's positive impacts on learning gains, equity, attitudinal shifts, and self-efficacy. While the success of this pedagogical approach has been recognized within the physics community, the use of models and modeling practices is still being developed for biology. Drawing from the existing research on UMI in physics, we describe the theoretical foundations of UMI and how UMI can be adapted to include an emphasis on models and modeling for undergraduate introductory biology courses. In particular, we discuss our ongoing work to develop a framework for the first semester of a two-semester introductory biology course sequence by identifying the essential basic models for an introductory biology course sequence.
大学建模教学法（UMI）是一种课程和教学法，其教学重点是让学生参与构建、验证和应用科学模型。建模教学法已经在高中和大学物理课程中得到了成功的实施。物理教育研究（PER）界的研究已经确定了 UMI 对学习收益、公平性、态度转变和自我效能的积极影响。虽然这种教学方法在物理界已经得到了认可，但在生物学中使用模型和建模实践仍在不断发展。我们借鉴了物理学中关于 UMI 的现有研究，描述了 UMI 的理论基础，以及如何调整 UMI 以包括对本科生物学入门课程的模型和建模的强调。具体来说，我们讨论了我们正在进行的工作，通过确定生物学入门课程序列的基本模型，为两学期的生物学入门课程序列的第一学期开发一个框架。
