Helping Students Connect Interdisciplinary Concepts and Skills in Physical Chemistry and Introductory Computing: Solving Schrödinger’s Equation for the Hydrogen Atom
Helping Students Connect Interdisciplinary Concepts and Skills in Physical Chemistry and Introductory Computing: Solving Schrödinger’s Equation for the Hydrogen Atom
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帮助学生连接物理化学和入门计算中的跨学科概念和技能：求解氢原子的薛定谔方程
DOI：
10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00068
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发表时间：
2019
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3
通讯作者：
Maggie Pee
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作者：
Oka Kurniawan;Li Ling Apple Koh;Jermaine Zhi Min Cheng;Maggie Pee
跨学科整合知识已被证明是一项具有挑战性的工作，但它是大学生需要发展的一项必要技能。能够将给定主题的不同概念、观点和角度联系起来的学生通常会更投入并有更好的理解。然而，设计整合跨学科知识的课程计划或作业对大多数教师来说是一个挑战。本文描述了我们努力提供跨学科和独立的作业，将物理化学课程的主题与计算机入门课程中教授的技能结合起来。事实证明，这样的跨学科作业虽然是独立完成的，但可以帮助促进学生的学习。但是，它仅有助于理解主题的某些方面。我们向愿意采用这种跨学科方法的其他教师介绍作业的设计和经验教训。
Integrating knowledge across disciplines has been shown to be a challenging, and yet it is a necessary skill that university students need to develop. Students who are able to connect different concepts, perspectives, and angles of a given topic are generally more engaged and have better understanding. However, designing lesson plans or assignments that integrate knowledge across disciplines is a challenge to most instructors. This paper describes our effort to provide an interdisciplinary and independent assignment that couples topics from a Physical Chemistry course with skills taught in an Introductory Computing course. It was shown that such an interdisciplinary assignment, though done independently, can help to boost students’ learning. However, it helps only in the understanding of certain aspects of the topics. We present the design of the assignment and the lessons learned for other instructors willing to adopt this kind of interdisciplinary approach.