Physics Pathways - Initial Step

物理途径-第一步是北卡罗来纳州立大学物理系为期五年的倡议的第一阶段，该倡议旨在改善和扩大低级物理课程的学生在技术丰富的环境中学习的机会。这第一步是将现有的使用交互式课件(物理1和物理2)解决物理问题的课程从每学期50名学生扩大到每学期1,000名学生。通过联网50个IBM学生工作站和安装课程管理器，我们能够为大型服务课程提供一个学生-计算机学习环境。此外，扩展后的PCIC设施每学期使用两次，以评估和监测基本实验室技能的发展，如误差分析、显著数字和曲线拟合。物理路径计划在完全投入使用后，将为学生提供他们希望如何学习的选择。这第一步是帮助扩大可用于教授大量学生的微型计算机的质量和数量。这个项目所攻击的问题是许多大型大学的共同问题。如果物理路径-初始步骤成功，我们正在开发的模型将可以移植到其他环境中。

Physics Pathways - Initial Step is the first phase of a five- year initiative in the Department of Physics at North Carolina State University to improve and extend opportunities for students in lower-division physics courses to learn in a technologically rich environment. This Initial Step is expanding the existing program of teaching problem solving in physics using interactive courseware (Physics 1 and 2) from 50 students per semester to 1,000 students per semester. By networking 50 IBM student workstations and installing a curriculum manager, we are able to offer a one student-one computer learning environment for large service courses. In addition, the expanded PCIC facility is being used twice per semester to assess and monitor the development of basic laboratory skills such as error analysis, significant figures, and curve fitting. The Physics Pathways program, when fully operational, will offer choices to students for how they wish to learn. This Initial Step is helping to initiate the scaling up of both the quality and number of microcomputers available for teaching large numbers of students. The problems being attacked by this project are common to many large universities. If Physics Pathways - Initial Step is successful, the model we are developing will be transferrable to other settings.