Introductory College Physics 2000 - ICP/2

这项NSF提案的目的是开发一个新的和创新的大学物理入门课程，被称为大学物理入门2000 （ICP/2）。这门基于代数的课程将是模块化的，因为它的起源是20世纪70年代开发的技术模块原理。《国际比较方案/2》将以硬拷贝的形式提供，但将强调IBM和MAC的CD-ROM版本，因为它将允许使用材料的教员在打印供课堂使用之前对其进行编辑。通过认知科学的研究，新课程将纳入目前已知的能够改善学生学习的教学策略。这些模块将引入旨在提高学生概念理解和联系相关思想的能力的活动。《大学物理2000导论》将针对技术课程的学生，尽管它将适合所有的大学生。随着TechPrep和类似课程的引入，越来越多的理工专业学生开始学习大学物理。新课程的每个模块将使用现代技术设备介绍物理概念。这将激励技术学生，并帮助他们看到物理和他们选择的领域之间的联系。这门大学物理课程将保持严谨，这将使它很容易转移到大学。它将强调动手的方法，并将介绍入门物理的所有主要概念。然而，ICP/2的理念是，让学生充分理解更少的基本概念，并有信心将其应用于新情况，比让他们接触更多既不理解也不记住的概念更重要。项目ICP/2将包括顾问和华盛顿和宾夕法尼亚的另外两所社区学院。在第一年，将成立咨询委员会和其他写作中心。

The purpose of this NSF proposal is to develop a new and innovative curriculum for introductory college physics to be known as Introductory College Physics 2000 (ICP/2). This algebra-based course will be modular since its genesis is the Principle of Technology Modules developed in the 1970's. ICP/2 will be available in hard copy, but IBM and MAC versions on CD-ROM will be emphasized since it will allow the instructor using the material to edit it before printing for classroom use. The new curriculum will incorporate what is now known, through studies in cognitive science, about teaching strategies that will improve student learning. The modules will be developed to introduce activities designed to enhance a student's conceptual understanding and ability to make connections to related ideas. Introductory College Physics 2000 will target the students in technology courses, although it will be suitable for all college students. With the introduction of TechPrep and similar programs, more technology students are taking college physics. Each module in the new curriculum will use modern technological devices to introduce the physics concepts. This will motivate the technological students and help them see the connections between physics and their chosen fields. This college physics course will maintain a rigor that will make it highly transferrable to universities. It will emphasize a hands on approach and will introduce all the major concepts of introductory physics. However, it will be the philosophy of ICP/2 that it is more important for students to fully understand fewer basic concepts and have confidence in applying them to new situations than it is for them to be exposed to more ideas that are neither understood nor remembered. Project ICP/2 will involve consultants and two other community colleges in Washington and Pennsylvania During the first year, advisory boards and other writing centers would be formed.