Implementation of a Novel Studio Curriculum

P面向本科生大班讲授入门物理的新工作室形式保留了讲课形式，并结合了传统的背诵和实验室教学，创造了一个实施许多互动学习策略的环境。这个新的工作室，每周两次教学生两个小时，30名学生三人一组，在配备了现代教学技术和设备的桌子前工作。小组设置允许同龄人指导和发展小组技能。以小组工作、基于微型计算机的技术工具和解决问题为中心的教学材料被改编和实施在新工作室的环境中。课程的日常顺序包括对大部分学生进行经济指导的讲座，但通过使用ClassTalk和概念性问题等非传统课堂互动策略来加强。该讲座由新工作室支持，让学生通过与前一天晚上的习题集协调的简单实验/演示进行授课。在学生使用这些演示探索了三到四个概念后，他们在教师和同龄人的指导下重新考虑了问题集。新工作室的概念是基于我们对更传统的物理教学的部门评估，并基于改编和实施几种在最近的物理教育研究中被证明有效的互动教学材料和技术。

pThe New Studio format for teaching introductory physics to large undergraduate classes retains the lecture format and combines traditional recitation and laboratory instruction creating an environment in which many interactive learning strategies are implemented. This New Studio, where students are taught two hours twice a week has 30 students working in groups of three at tables equipped with modern instructional technology and apparatus. The group setting allows for peer instruction and development of group skills. Instructional materials that are centered on group work, microcomputer based technology tools and problem solving are adapted and implemented in the New Studio setting. The daily sequence of the course includes the lecture to instruct economically large sections of students, but is strengthened by non-traditional classroom interactive strategies such as the use of ClassTalk and concept questions. The lecture, supported by the New Studio, engages students with simple experiments/demonstrations coordinated with the previous night's problem set. After the students explore the three to four concepts using these demonstrations, they reconsider the problem set with the guidance of their instructors and their peers. The New Studio concept is motivated by our departmental assessment of more traditional physics instruction and is based on adapting and implementing several of the interactive instructional materials and techniques demonstrated as effective in recent physics education research.