SPIN-UP/TYC: Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics at Two-Year Colleges

该项目正在调查和分析两年制学院(TYC)的本科物理教学在鼓励学生，特别是女性和少数族裔学生攻读物理学以及科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)其他领域的本科学位方面所起的作用。该项目旨在发现一些两年制大学如何成功地鼓励学生学习物理入门课程，然后转到四年制院校，成为物理专业的学生。基于对TYC物理活动的调查和对10个TYC的实地访问收集的信息，该项目正在发布一系列案例研究，其他两年制大学的物理学家可以利用这些研究来加强入门物理的教学，并鼓励STEM专业的学生，特别是物理专业的学生。Spin-Up/TYC项目正在调查两年制大学物理课程变化的基本机制。该项目赞助的实地考察和调查旨在确定TYC负责实施物理/科学计划变化的关键人员。该项目还在研究如何更好地在两年制大学物理教师和四年制大学物理教师之间建立联系。物理界这些部门之间更好的沟通不仅鼓励在TYC招聘物理专业的学生和职前物理教师，并促进转到四年制课程，这也加强了整个本科物理课程。在Spin-Up/TYC项目期间，正在收集关于两年制大学教师准备(特别是物理和物理科学教学准备)的信息。教师准备信息涉及选定的两年制大学在准备未来教师时使用的过程和范围。Spin-Up/TYC项目是美国物理教师协会、李学院和德克萨斯西南初级学院与美国物理研究所和美国物理学会合作的项目。

This project is investigating and analyzing the role of undergraduate physics instruction at two-year colleges (TYCs) in encouraging students, particularly women and minorities, to pursue undergraduate degrees in physics as well as in other areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The project is seeking to discover how some two-year colleges succeed in encouraging students to take introductory physics and then transfer to four-year institutions and become physics majors. Based on information gathered through a survey of TYC physics activities and site visits to ten TYCs, the project is publishing a series of case studies that physicists in other two-year colleges can use to enhance their teaching of introductory physics and to encourage the production of STEM majors, particularly physics majors. The SPIN-UP/TYC project is investigating the basic mechanism of change in the two-year college physics program. The site visits and survey that this project is sponsoring seeks to identify the key personnel at the TYC responsible for implementing changes in the physics/science programs. The project is also investigating ways to better bridge two-year college and four-year college physics faculty. Better communication between these segments of the physics community not only encourage recruitment of physics majors and pre-service physics teachers in the TYCs and facilitate transfer to the four-year programs, it strengthens undergraduate physics as a whole.During the SPIN-UP/TYC project, information concerning teacher preparation (particularly physics and physical science teaching preparation) at two-year colleges is being gathered. The teacher preparation information concerns both the processes and scope that selected two-year colleges use in their preparation of future teachers.The SPIN-UP/TYC project is a collaboration between the American Association of Physics Teachers, Lee College, and Southwest Texas Junior College in association with the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society.