Microcomputer-Based Laboratories in a Linked Physics- Calculus Program

9452617 Karmon这个项目针对的是计划主修工程和物理的社区大学生。传统上，许多学生对基本的物理概念缺乏直觉，因此物理和微积分课程对初学者来说是一个主要的障碍，尤其是女性和少数民族。该项目将提高暗黑谷学院物理和微积分学生对物理概念和原理的学习、记忆和应用。这将由索顿和劳斯开发的微电脑为基础的实验室和一个视频投影系统来完成。该项目将创建移动计算机单元，用于物理和微积分教学的不同领域和功能，并将扩大Diablo Valley大学的“跨学科，团队教学微积分和物理项目”。该项目将改善微积分和物理教学，提高科学素养，并激励其他学院采用这种方法。

9452617 Karmon This project addresses community college students who are planning to major in Engineering and Physics. Traditionally, many students lack intuition for the underlying physical concepts, and as a result the physics and calculus courses present a major hurdle for beginning students, especially women and minorities. This project will improve the learning, retention, and application of physics concepts and principles by physics and calculus students at Diablo Valley College. This will be accomplished by the microcomputer-based laboratories developed by Thorton and Laws and a video projection system. This project will create mobile units of computers that will serve different areas and functions in teaching physics and calculus and will augment the "Interdisciplinary, team-teaching Calculus and Physics Project" at Diablo Valley Co lege. This project will improve calculus and physics instruction, increase science literacy, and stimulate other colleges to adapt this approach.