Workshop II: Creating a guide for programmatic assessment, review, and improvement in undergraduate physics programs

研讨会二：为本科物理课程的程序化评估、审查和改进制定指南

• 批准号: 1747563
• 负责人: Theodore Hodapp
• 金额: $ 4.53万
• 依托单位: American Physical Society
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1747563&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; II; Creating; guide; programmatic

In the United States there is a growing emphasis on accountability in higher education, and departments are increasingly asked to set and assess learning goals. At the same time, physics departments face several challenges spanning from programmatic enrollments through the lack of diversity within the discipline. To address these concerns, the American Physical Society (APS) has identified a unique opportunity to develop meaningful assessments of physics programs, which are already required of nearly every department, while fulfilling their desire to improve the education of their students by implementing known best practices. APS leadership has formed and formally charged a nationally recognized task force of leaders in physics program evaluation and revitalization to create a guide for programmatic assessment, review, and improvement, and to undertake the training of departmental reviewers and department chairs in using the guide. The guide will be an operational document designed to be immediately useful to a department chair or faculty member engaging in programmatic assessment, review, or improvement. This workshop will allow the APS to lay the groundwork to ensure that the guide can achieve national impact.A workshop for the task force to meet in person will be held in February 2018 in College Park, MD to revisit the plan for the structure and content of the guide, adjust the plan as needed based on what lessons have been learned from writing so far, plan the next steps, and finalize a comprehensive plan for engaging community leaders in adopting and shaping guide practices. Outcomes of this workshop will include specific written sections for dissemination to the physics community, and a clearly articulated framework of the guide and how departments can implement its practices.

在美国，越来越强调高等教育的问责制，越来越多地要求部门设定和评估学习目标。 同时，物理部门面临着一些挑战，这些挑战涉及学科内部缺乏多样性的程序化入学率。 为了解决这些问题，美国物理社会（APS）已经确定了一个独特的机会来开发对物理计划的有意义评估，这些评估几乎是每个部门所要求的，同时实现了通过实施已知的最佳实践来改善学生教育的愿望。 APS领导层已成立并正式指控了全国认可的物理计划评估和振兴领导者的工作组，以创建计划评估，审查和改进的指南，并在使用指南中对部门审阅者和部门主席进行培训。该指南将是一份运营文件，旨在立即对部门主席或教职员工进行程序化评估，审查或改进。该研讨会将允许APS奠定基础，以确保指南能够实现全国影响。工作队的研讨会将于2018年2月在马里兰州大学公园举行，以重新审视指南的结构和内容的计划，并根据需要从迄今为止的书写中学到的课程来调整所需的计划，并计划在下一步计划中，并在计划中，为社区提供了一定的计划，并在社区中完成了一项社区的范围。 该研讨会的结果将包括向物理社区传播的特定书面部分，以及指南清晰明确的框架以及部门如何实施其实践。