Computerized Freshman Physics Laboratories: Learning ThroughApplications and Open-Ended Problems

计算机化新生物理实验室：通过应用程序和开放式问题进行学习

• 批准号: 9850687
• 负责人: Gabor Forgacs
• 金额: $ 2.95万
• 依托单位: Clarkson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-08-15 至 2000-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9850687&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Computerized; Freshman; Physics; Laboratories; Learning

There is growing evidence that passive listening in class or the mere verification of the laws of nature in the laboratory are inefficient ways of learning physics. This project modifies the freshman laboratory based on the success of a special laboratory initiative, the Clarkson Team Design Program introduced in 1996 by the department. Currently the program targets only academically strong students (the upper 10% of the class). Some of the elements of the project being implemented in the traditional laboratory environment are: open-ended problems, project-based learning, flexibility for the students to design their own experiments, team work-based activity. This project allows the whole freshman class to participate in the positive experience of the Team Design Program. Specifically, students are engaged at an early stage in all aspects of the scientific enterprise through computerizing the major portion of the laboratory experiments. This facilitates students' ability to generate a hypothesis, design experiments, and analyze, interpret, and present data. The lab stations are set up with the intention of challenging the students with real world problems, shifting the emphasis from grades to project success. Such an approach allows students to gain important experience developing theoretical models and experimental procedures with state of the art data acquisition systems, while fostering technical creativity and encouraging students to sharpen their analytical skills.

越来越多的证据表明，课堂上被动的倾听或仅仅在实验室里验证自然定律是学习物理的低效方法。 这个项目修改了一个特殊的实验室倡议，克拉克森团队设计计划在1996年推出的部门的成功的基础上，新生实验室。 目前，该计划只针对学业成绩优异的学生（班级前10%）。 在传统实验室环境中实施的项目的一些元素是：开放式问题，基于项目的学习，学生设计自己的实验的灵活性，基于团队工作的活动。 这个项目允许整个新生班级参与团队设计计划的积极经验。具体而言，学生在早期阶段通过计算机化实验室实验的主要部分参与科学企业的各个方面。这有助于学生产生假设，设计实验，分析，解释和呈现数据的能力。实验站的建立是为了用真实的世界问题挑战学生，将重点从成绩转移到项目成功。这种方法使学生能够获得重要的经验，开发理论模型和实验程序与最先进的数据采集系统，同时培养技术创造力，并鼓励学生提高他们的分析技能。