Discovery-Based Laboratory for Calculus-Based Introductory Physics

基于微积分的入门物理学发现实验室

• 批准号: 9952385
• 负责人: Fred Loxsom
• 金额: $ 3.7万
• 依托单位: Trinity University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-06-01 至 2002-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9952385&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Discovery; Based; Laboratory; Calculus; Introductory

Physics (13) The objectives of the introductory physics laboratory are to help students learn experimental techniques, to enable students to think creatively about physical measurements, and to increase students' understanding of physical concepts and processes. Evaluation of student work indicates that the introductory physics laboratory sequence only accomplishes the first of these three objectives. Most students learn how to acquire and analyze data correctly, but many do not fully understand what they are doing and few increase their understanding of physics through the laboratory experience. In order to deal with this well-documented characteristic of the traditional introductory physics laboratory course, Thornton, Sokoloff, and Laws created a series of discovery-based laboratories. These curricular products - Workshop Physics (WP), Tools for Scientific Thinking (TST), and RealTime Physics (RTP) - have been shown to increase greatly students' conceptual understanding of introductory physics. The project is using RTP as a model to develop a discovery-based laboratory sequence that is appropriate for the calculus-based introductory lecture sequence. The RTP approach is being modified by adding computer simulations, adding calculus applications, and reducing coverage of topics treated in high school. Also, these materials will be supplemented with exercises related to the application of physics to astronomy. Even with these changes, the project will adhere to the discovery-based philosophy: students must construct their own conceptual understanding through making predictions and testing predictions. The project is effectively integrating technology into undergraduate education, developing the faculty's ability to use discovery-based educational techniques, and serving as an example of student-centered education and thus serving as a catalyst for educational change at Trinity University.

物理(13)物理入门实验室的目标是帮助学生学习实验技术，使学生能够创造性地思考物理测量，并增加学生对物理概念和过程的理解。对学生作业的评估表明，入门物理实验序列只完成了这三个目标中的第一个。大多数学生学习如何正确地获取和分析数据，但许多人并不完全理解他们在做什么，很少有人通过实验室经验增加他们对物理的理解。为了应对传统入门物理实验室课程的这种有充分记录的特点，桑顿、索科洛夫和劳创建了一系列以发现为基础的实验室。这些课程产品-工作坊物理(WP)、科学思维工具(TST)和实时物理(RTP)-已被证明极大地提高了学生对入门物理的概念理解。该项目正在使用RTP作为模型来开发基于发现的实验序列，该序列适用于基于微积分的入门课程序列。RTP方法正在进行修改，增加了计算机模拟，增加了微积分应用程序，并减少了高中课程主题的覆盖面。此外，这些材料还将辅以与物理学在天文学中的应用有关的练习。即使有了这些变化，该项目仍将坚持基于发现的哲学：学生必须通过做出预测和测试预测来构建自己的概念性理解。该项目将技术有效地整合到本科教育中，培养教师使用基于发现的教育技术的能力，并成为以学生为中心的教育的典范，从而成为三一大学教育变革的催化剂。