Interactive, Microcomputer-Based Undergraduate Physics Laboratory

基于微机的交互式本科生物理实验室

• 批准号: 9851024
• 负责人: Karl Trout
• 金额: $ 3.53万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 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: 1998-09-01 至 2000-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9851024&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interactive; Microcomputer; Based; Undergraduate; Physics

The goal of the project is to improve interest in and understanding and application of physics concepts by undergraduate students in general education, engineering, technology and science tracks. The project builds on preliminary local work to use a microcomputer-based laboratory (MBL) to improve student involvement in laboratory experiences, to link kinesthetic, perceptual and logical-symbolic experience of phenomena, and to increase the quality and immediacy of data capture and display. Experiments, demonstrations and simulations apply and extend publicly reported MBL experiments. Experiments based on active, collaborative, learner centered pedagogical techniques are used in mechanics, electricity and magnetism, heat and thermodynamics, and in modern physics. The project is unusual in involving two neighboring campuses, which should speed development of learning modules in its connections to 12 campuses in the Penn State Commonwealth College at which lower-division physics is taught with good opportunity for internal and external dissemination, and in using laboratory experiences to connect physics and mathematics instructions to each other. Support provides software and hardware to equip a basic MBL at York and Mont Alto and for additional instrumentation and equipment to develop a wide range of experiments at York. The two campuses are collaborating to speed development of a complete set of laboratory experiences for students. It is expected that learning in physics will improve measurably and it is hoped that the bridge between science and mathematics instruction will enhance learning in both disciplines.

该项目的目标是提高普通教育、工程、技术和科学专业本科生对物理概念的兴趣、理解和应用。该项目建立在当地初步工作的基础上，利用微电脑实验室（MBL）提高学生对实验室体验的参与度，将现象的动觉、知觉和逻辑符号体验联系起来，并提高数据捕获和显示的质量和即时性。实验、演示和模拟应用并扩展了公开报道的MBL实验。在力学、电学、磁学、热学和热力学以及现代物理学中，实验采用主动的、协作的、以学习者为中心的教学技术。该项目的不同寻常之处在于涉及两个相邻的校区，这将加快与宾夕法尼亚州立联邦学院（Penn State Commonwealth College） 12个校区的学习模块的开发，在这些校区中，低年级的物理教学有很好的内部和外部传播机会，并利用实验室经验将物理和数学教学相互联系起来。支持提供软件和硬件，以装备约克和蒙奥图的基本MBL，并提供额外的仪器和设备，以在约克开展广泛的实验。这两个校区正在合作，加快为学生开发一套完整的实验室体验。预计物理的学习将有明显的改善，并希望科学和数学教学之间的桥梁将促进这两个学科的学习。