Improving teacher preparation and student learning through physics education research

通过物理教育研究改善教师准备和学生学习

• 批准号: 0733276
• 负责人: Lillian McDermott
• 金额: $ 198.58万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-15 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0733276&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; teacher; preparation; student; learning

The Physics Education Research Group at the University of Washington continues to do research and develop resources and tools to facilitate the active involvement of college and university physics departments in the professional development of teachers of physics and physical science in K-12 school systems. Modules in two of the following topics - electrostatics, particulate nature of matter, energy, waves, and kinetics and dynamics - are added to the 10 modules already developed for Physics by Inquiry, the laboratory-based professional development curriculum for use by physics faculty. Tutorials in Physics, a new curriculum modeled after the Tutorials in Introductory Physics, is comprised of in-depth supplements to college courses or for use in awareness workshops that help teachers reflect on their own learning and become aware of the difficulties their student will have with the concepts. Instructor Guides are developed as a resource to help physics faculty implement the above curricula. Part I of a Learning Assessment Manual guides physics faculty in assessing progress in teacher learning; Part II helps teachers develop skills needed to monitor the progress of their students. Summer institutes in physics and physical science and associated academic year continuation courses provide the environment for carrying out the research, and developing and testing the modules. The research investigates how students and teachers learn specific content and reasoning skills for applying concepts to real world situations; how teachers can learn specific content in a way that helps them promote student learning; and how teachers can learn to assess student understanding in a way that guides them in promoting student learning. Strategies to overcome intellectual barriers to the adoption of inquiry-oriented instructional materials are developed.

华盛顿大学的物理教育研究小组继续进行研究和开发资源和工具，以促进大学物理系的积极参与，参与K-12学校系统中物理和物理科学教师的专业发展。 以下两个主题中的模块 - 静电性，物质的颗粒性质，能量，波浪和动力学和动力学 - 被添加到已经为物理学开发的10个模块中，该模块是通过询问为物理学开发的，这是基于实验室的专业发展课程。 物理学教程是一种以入门物理学教程为基础的新课程，由大学课程的深入补充或用于宣传研讨会的使用，可帮助教师反思自己的学习，并意识到他们的学生将在概念上遇到的困难。讲师指南是作为帮助物理教师实施上述课程的资源的。 学习评估手册的第一部分指导物理教师评估教师学习的进步；第二部分可以帮助教师发展监视学生进步所需的技能。 物理学和物理科学和相关学年延续课程的夏季学院为进行研究，开发和测试模块提供了环境。 该研究调查了学生和教师如何学习特定的内容和推理技能，以将概念应用于现实世界的情况；教师如何以帮助他们促进学生学习的方式学习特定的内容；以及教师如何以指导他们促进学生学习的方式来评估学生的理解。 制定了克服智力障碍采用面向询问的教学材料的策略。