Louder Than Words

胜过言辞

• 批准号: 9751018
• 负责人: Craig Smith
• 金额: $ 1.75万
• 依托单位: Paul Smith's College of Arts and Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-07-01 至 2000-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9751018&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Louder; Than; Words

Students in physics and environmental technology courses previously gained little understanding of basic physical concepts from lectures. Furthermore, the artificial separation of lecture and laboratory in these courses has prevented the laboratory from rectifying the conceptual shortcomings of lecture. The department has purchased a single computer and instrumental interfacing equipment and has begun to redesign the physics courses by melding lecture and laboratory into an activity-based instructional approach. Equipment is being purchased to enable the department to set up a number of computerized student learning stations. Specifically, it is setting up six learning stations that can be used to teach a two-semester, calculus-based physics course and a one-semester, technical physics course during the first year of the project. In the second year, three more stations can be added and activity-based instruction can be introduced into two environmental technology courses Principles of Environmental Engineering and Advanced Water and Wastewater Operations. *

以前，物理和环境技术课程的学生从讲座中对基本物理概念的理解很少。此外，在这些课程中，人为地将讲座和实验室分开，阻碍了实验室纠正讲座在概念上的缺陷。该系购买了单一的计算机和仪器接口设备，并已开始重新设计物理课程，将讲座和实验室整合为以活动为基础的教学方法。教育署现正购置设备，以便设立若干电脑化的学生学习站。具体地说，它正在建立六个学习站，在项目的第一年，可以用来教授为期两学期的微积分物理课程和为期一学期的技术物理课程。在第二年，两门环境技术课程《环境工程原理》和《高等给水与废水操作》可以增加三个站点，并引入活动教学。*