Faculty survey on upper-division thermal physics content coverage
Faculty survey on upper-division thermal physics content coverage
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关于高年级热物理内容覆盖率的教师调查
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2019
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Bethany R. Wilcox
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Katherine Rainey;Bethany R. Wilcox
热物理是大多数物理学位的核心课程要求，包括热力学和统计力学内容。然而，热物理课程的主要内容焦点因大学而异。这种变化可能会使热物理学的材料或评估工具的创建变得困难。为了确定各机构热物理课程的范围和内容的变化，我们向140多个机构分发了一份调查，以确定教授高年级热力学和/或统计力学的教师和教师的内容优先级。我们提出了调查结果，其中突出了各机构热物理内容覆盖的关键相似性和差异。虽然我们看到内容覆盖范围的变化，但我们发现所有受访者在他们的高年级热物理课程中涵盖了9个关键主题领域。我们讨论了这些研究结果的影响，对最广泛的机构和物理教师有用的教学工具和评估的发展。
Thermal physics is a core course requirement for most physics degrees and encompasses both thermodynamics and statistical mechanics content. However, the primary content foci of thermal physics courses vary across universities. This variation can make creation of materials or assessment tools for thermal physics difficult. To determine the scope and content variability of thermal physics courses across institutions, we distributed a survey to over 140 institutions to determine content priorities from faculty and instructors who have taught upper-division thermodynamics and/or statistical mechanics. We present results from the survey, which highlight key similarities and differences in thermal physics content coverage across institutions. Though we see variations in content coverage, we found 9 key topical areas covered by all respondents in their upper-division thermal physics courses. We discuss implications of these findings for the development of instructional tools and assessments that are useful to the widest range of institutions and physics instructors.