Computer Assisted Data Collection, Video Analysis and Inter-Collegiate Collaboration in Women's Introductory Physics Laboratories

9452406门德斯该项目旨在鼓励女性学习科学。我们将通过三种方式使我们的介绍性和概念性物理实验室更有利于我们的女生：1)通过使用计算机辅助数据收集和采用由Priscilla Laws和Dickenson学院的工作坊物理小组开发的几个作业，增加自信和动手体验；2)通过使用微型计算机视频数字化仪将视频数字化，并对其进行分析以进行定量测量，将抽象概念与现实世界联系起来；以及3)通过让我们的学生通过互联网计算机网络与兰道夫-梅肯女子学院的物理系学生合作进行实验，减少孤立感，向我们的学生介绍联网的强大工具。

9452406 Mendez This project is designed to encourage women to study science. We will make our introductory and conceptual physics laboratories more conducive to our female students in three ways: 1) increasing self-confidence and hands-on experience by using computer assisted data collection and adopting several assignments developed by Priscilla Laws and the Workshop Physics Group at Dickenson College; 2) relating abstract concepts to the real world by using a microcomputer video digitizer to digitize videos and then analyzing them to make quantitative measurements; and 3) decreasing the feeling of isolation and introducing our students to the powerful tool of networking by having our students collaborate on experiments with physics students at Randolph-Macon Woman's College through the Internet computer network.