Physics Courseware Evaluation Project: Courseware Evaluationand PCEP Teacher Institute

该计划的目标是提高高中物理教师在课堂和实验室中使用计算机进行教学和计算的有效性。这将通过两项不同但又相互关联的活动来实现：*评估供所有物理教师使用的物理软件。*成立教师学院，让领导教师在物理教学中使用该软件，并充分利用电脑。软件评估部分将为高中物理教师提供独立、及时、可靠和全面的指导，指导目前可用的课件。这些评论将通过在《物理教师》上的出版物以及在当地和全国范围内提交的演讲和研讨会来传播。该研究所将提供密集的动手活动，使用最新的基于微型计算机的实验室(MBL)界面、电子表格和样本练习，以及课堂演示和学生作业的课件材料。每年暑假将组织两次会议，每次有12名领导教师参加。课程将在北卡罗来纳州立大学物理课程实验室进行，为期三周。在接下来的一年里，工作人员将对师范高中进行两次后续访问，第二年夏天，教师将返回NCSU进行为期两周的审查和评估。共有48名全国选派的高中教师将能够参加这一为期三年的项目。在第一学年和第二学年期间，领导力教师将总共举办4次讲习班，并在一次关于计算机在物理教学中的应用的专业会议上作至少一次演讲。预计共有约2000名教师将收到有关计算机在物理教学中应用的信息。费用分摊相当于NSF申请资金的17%。

The goal of the program is to enhance the effectiveness of high school physics teachers in their use of the computer in the classroom and laboratory both for instruction and computation. This will be accomplished via two distinct but inter-related activities: * The evaluation of physics software for the use of all physics teachers. * A Teacher Institute for empowering leadership teachers to use the software and achieve full utilization of computers in the teaching of physics. The software evaluation component will provide independent , timely, reliable and comprehensive guides to currently available courseware for high school physics teachers. These reviews will be disseminated by publication in The Physics Teacher and by contributed presentations and workshops given locally and nationally. The institute will provide intensive hands-on activity in the use of the latest Microcomputer Based Laboratory(MBL) interfaces, spreadsheets and sample exercises, and courseware materials for classroom demonstrations and student assignments. Each summer two sessions will be organized with 12 leadership teachers in each. The sessions will be of three weeks duration at the Physics Courseware Laboratory of North Carolina State University. During the following year staff members will make two follow-up visits to the teachers high schools and the following summer the teachers will return to NCSU for two weeks of review and assessment. A total of 48 nationally selected high school teachers will be able to participate in this three year project. During the first and second academic years the leadership teachers will be expected to conduct a total of 4 workshops and to give at least one presentation at a professional meeting on the utility of computers to teach physics. It is expected that a total of about 2000 teachers will receive information about the utility of computers in physics instruction. Cost sharing is equal to 17% of NSF funding requested.