To engage in student faculty collaborative research to discover how toxicants in the environment affect the cognitive development in the brain. The Med Pc software is a powerful scripting language that allows for the automatic application of visual and olfactory stimuli and recording of rat response, eliminating the need for a researcher to be present to run the experiment.
The statistic would be used in my Electoral Politics Course (Block 4, 2006-07) to allow students to participate in collecting data (each student tabulated one state of their choice) and to teach students how the 50 states vote over time.
By videotaping a student's performance, I can accomplish three things: 1) the students can watch and self-assess themselves after presenting an assignment; 2)we can do a group critique by revisiting certain pieces of video; and, 3) I can assess the student utilizing the video as a vehicle for giving specific suggestions for improvement.
