AP Chemistry by Satellite

小型高中的学生在进入大学时往往在教育上处于不利地位，因为他们的学校缺乏必要的资源来教授那些本来可以帮助他们在大学取得成功的高级课程。该项目将确定卫星直播教学是否是向高中生提供高级化学课程的可行手段。这一机会将提供给那些太小或缺乏资源而无法提供高级选修化学课程的学校，但这些学校确实提供了一年的课程。这种形式将被设计成尽可能多地融入现场课堂教学的可取特征。它将为学生提供基于视频和计算机的学习体验，而这通常是无法在现场课堂上完成的。在每一次电视直播中，学生将能够提出问题并回答他们的远程教师。他们将在自己的学校实验室进行实验，并使用计算机交换数据。地方监督将由学校的一年级化学教师负责，他将作为合作教师与大学互动。最近的研究表明，学生在大学水平上坚持不懈地学习数学和科学的其中一个最重要的因素是学生有机会参加这些学科的高级选修课程或荣誉课程。通过让农村学校的学生有这种体验，该项目解决了两个重要问题：人力资源和公平。

Students from small high schools are often educationally disadvantaged when they reach college because their schools lacked the resources required to teach those advanced courses that would have helped them succeed in college. This project will determine whether live instruction-by-satellite is a viable means of providing high school students with an advanced course in chemistry. The opportunity will be offered to schools which are too small or lack resources to provide Advanced Placement Chemistry, but which do offer one year of the subject. The format will be designed to incorporate as many of the desirable features of live classroom instruction as are possible. It will include video- and computer-based learning experiences for students that usually cannot be done in a live classroom. Students will be able to ask questions and respond to their distant instructor during each telecast. They will do experiments in their own school laboratories and will exchange data using computers. Local supervision will be the responsibility of the school's "first-year" chemistry teacher who will interact with the University as a cooperating teacher. It has recently been shown that one of the strongest correlates with persistence at the college level in the study of mathematics and the sciences is the opportunity for the student to take Advanced Placement or Honors courses in the subjects. By allowing students in rural schools to have this experience, the project addresses two important issues: human resources and equity.