Implementation of a Novel Studio Curriculum

新工作室的物理导论教学形式保留了授课形式，并结合了传统的背诵和实验教学，创造了一个可以实施许多互动学习策略的环境。在这个新工作室里，学生们每周两次上两个小时的课，30名学生以三人一组的形式在配备了现代教学技术和设备的桌子上学习。小组设置允许同伴指导和小组技能的发展。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在新工作室的设置中进行了调整和实施。课程的日常顺序包括讲座，以指导经济上的大部分学生，但通过非传统的课堂互动策略，如使用classstalk和概念问题来加强。该讲座由新工作室提供支持，通过与前一天晚上的习题相协调的简单实验/演示来吸引学生。在学生通过这些演示探索了三到四个概念之后，他们会在导师和同学的指导下重新考虑问题集。新工作室的概念源于我们部门对传统物理教学的评估，并基于最近物理教育研究中证明有效的几种互动教学材料和技术的适应和实施。

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.