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

9452406 Mendez这个项目旨在鼓励妇女学习科学。我们将从三个方面使我们的介绍性和概念性物理实验室更有利于女学生：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Workshop物理小组开发的几个作业来增强自信心和实践经验；2)将抽象概念与现实世界联系起来，利用微机视频数字化仪对视频进行数字化分析，并进行定量测量；3)通过互联网计算机网络，让我们的学生与伦道夫-梅肯女子学院的物理学生合作进行实验，从而减少孤立感，并向我们的学生介绍强大的网络工具。

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.