Implementation of a Novel Studio Curriculum

p向本科生大班教授物理学入门的新工作室形式保留了讲座形式，并将传统的背诵和实验室教学结合起来，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，在那里学生每周两次教两个小时，有30名学生三人一组在配备现代教学技术和仪器的桌子上工作。小组设置允许同行指导和小组技能的发展。 以小组工作为中心的教学材料，基于微计算机的技术工具和解决问题的方法在新的工作室环境中进行了调整和实施。 该课程的日常顺序包括讲座，以指导学生的经济大部分，但通过非传统的课堂互动策略，如使用ClassTalk和概念问题得到加强。讲座，由新工作室的支持，从事学生与简单的实验/示范协调与前一天晚上的问题集。 在学生使用这些演示探索了三到四个概念之后，他们在教师和同伴的指导下重新考虑问题集。 新的工作室概念的动机是我们的部门评估更传统的物理教学，是基于适应和实施几个互动教学材料和技术证明在最近的物理教育研究有效。

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.