Department of Science, United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut 06320.
Biological Sciences, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky 41099.
Toxicol Sci. 2019 Jul 1;170(1):20-24. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfz090.
The Society of Toxicology announces the development of a Learning Framework (https://www.toxicology.org/education/docs/SOT-Toxicology-Learning-Objectives.pdf) for undergraduate toxicology that will facilitate the development and sharing of evidence-based teaching materials for undergraduate toxicology educators throughout the world. This Learning Framework was modeled on the "Vision and Change Report" (www.visionandchange.org), an effort of the National Science Foundation and American Association for the Advancement of Science defining Core Concepts and Core Competencies to inform undergraduate biology course design. Vision and Change (V&C) has gained national acceptance, becoming a foundation for 14 upper-level courses designed by professional life science scientific societies. The undergraduate toxicology Learning Framework includes 5 Core Concepts aligned with V&C that encompass the discipline of toxicology: Evolution; Biological Information, Risk and Risk Management; Systems Toxicology; and Pathways and Transformations for Energy and Matter. Underpinning the Core Concepts are Level 2 Toxicology Concepts, which are broad disciplinary categories, Level 3 Learning Objectives, which address specific learning goals, and Level 4 Example Learning Objectives and Case Studies, which provide examples of how content might be taught. Syllabi from more than 20 undergraduate toxicology courses and several undergraduate toxicology textbooks were surveyed to determine toxicology-related Learning Objectives. From these, undergraduate educators can design courses tailored to their institutional needs by selecting a subset of Learning Objectives. Publication of a Learning Framework for toxicology will enable integration into other disciplines and facilitate the development and sharing of evidenced-based teaching materials for toxicology to educators in allied disciplines. Ultimately this will expand toxicology's impact to a broader audience.
毒理学学会宣布开发一个本科毒理学学习框架（https://www.toxicology.org/education/docs/SOT-Toxicology-Learning-Objectives.pdf），以促进全球本科毒理学教育工作者开发和共享基于证据的教学材料。该学习框架是根据“愿景与变革报告”（www.visionandchange.org）建模的，这是美国国家科学基金会和美国科学促进会的一项努力，旨在确定本科生物学课程设计的核心概念和核心能力。愿景与变革（V&C）已获得全国认可，成为由专业生命科学科学学会设计的 14 门高级课程的基础。本科毒理学学习框架包括与 V&C 对齐的 5 个核心概念，涵盖毒理学学科：进化；生物信息、风险和风险管理；系统毒理学；以及能量和物质的途径和转化。核心概念的基础是 2 级毒理学概念，这是广泛的学科类别，2 级学习目标，解决具体的学习目标，以及 3 级示例学习目标和案例研究，提供了如何教授内容的示例。调查了 20 多门本科毒理学课程和几本本科毒理学教材的教学大纲，以确定与毒理学相关的学习目标。通过选择学习目标的子集，本科教育工作者可以根据自己的机构需求设计课程。毒理学学习框架的出版将使毒理学能够融入其他学科，并促进相关学科教育工作者开发和共享基于证据的毒理学教学材料。最终，这将扩大毒理学的影响力，使其受众更加广泛。
