Advanced Placement Digital Library for Biology, Physics and Chemistry

生物、物理和化学大学先修数字图书馆

• 批准号: 0226317
• 负责人: Datla Siva Kumari
• 金额: $ 70万
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-11-01 至 2006-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0226317&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Advanced; Placement; Digital; Library; Biology

Rice University, in collaboration with the College Board, is creating an online digital library for high school Advanced Placement (AP) students and teachers of Biology, Physics and Chemistry (BPC). The AP program, administered by the College Board, is accepted both nationally and internationally as a demanding undergraduate level curriculum taught in high schools. In a two-phased process, the Advanced Placement Digital Library (APDL) is building a collection of educationally valid Internet resources. In Phase One, educational resources directly related to BPC topics and concepts are researched and collected by project personnel, reviewed and validated by master AP teachers and college faculty, and cataloged and organized by the topics and concepts taught in these three courses. In Phase Two, the collection opens to AP teachers and students, and through their input, APDL serves as a valuable source of dynamically updated resources. APDL serves as a reservoir of resources where teachers and students can educate themselves about BPC concepts, at their own pace, at a time and place of their choosing, and take individualized knowledge-building paths based on interest and needs. APDL is collecting resources for these three subjects through a collaborative construction process using a content panel for each subject. The review panel consists of several AP constituents: a higher education faculty member who has in-depth knowledge of the AP curriculum and holds leadership positions to influence change; five AP teachers with considerable experience in teaching students and their peers; an undergraduate student who is studying the subject at the university level; and two project content experts. The panel selects only those resources that support advanced study of the topic. A collection created through such a broad review is then opened to the larger community of AP teachers and students for their use and input. Peer-review of both teachers and students is visible to the users. The end result is a body of resources aligned to AP topics in BPC and searchable by concept. For each course, teachers find a topic outline of that is hyperlinked to the collected resources.AP teachers are informed about APDL via the more than 60,000 College Board professional development conferences that occur nationwide. The College Board is committed to housing the collection on their official site, AP Central, with over 50,000 registered users. While students and teachers of advanced science courses are the targeted audiences for this collection, we expect it to be useful to others such as, a large body of Pre-AP teachers, high school teachers and students taking non-AP courses, undergraduate students and higher education faculty teaching introductory courses in these subjects.Significant co-funding of this project is being provided by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the NSF Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences in recognition of the importance of a digital library collection of learning resources for students in the disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics.

莱斯大学与大学理事会合作，正在为高中预修课程（AP）的学生和生物、物理和化学（BPC）的教师创建一个在线数字图书馆。AP课程由大学理事会管理，在国内和国际上都被接受为高中教授的高要求本科课程。在一个两阶段的过程中，大学先修课程数字图书馆（APDL）正在建立一个教育有效的互联网资源的集合。在第一阶段，与BPC主题和概念直接相关的教育资源由项目人员进行研究和收集，由AP教师和学院教师进行审查和验证，并按这三门课程中教授的主题和概念进行编目和组织。在第二阶段，该集合向AP教师和学生开放，通过他们的输入，APDL作为动态更新资源的宝贵来源。APDL是一个资源库，教师和学生可以按照自己的节奏，在自己选择的时间和地点自学BPC概念，并根据兴趣和需求采取个性化的知识建设路径。APDL正在通过使用每个主题的内容面板的协作构建过程来收集这三个主题的资源。审查小组由几个AP成员组成：一名对AP课程有深入了解并担任领导职务以影响变革的高等教育教师;五名在教学学生和同龄人方面具有丰富经验的AP教师;一名正在大学学习该主题的本科生;和两名项目内容专家。该小组只选择那些支持该主题的高级研究的资源。通过如此广泛的审查创建的集合然后向更大的AP教师和学生社区开放，供他们使用和输入。教师和学生的同行评议对用户都是可见的。最终的结果是一个与BPC中的AP主题一致的资源主体，并且可以通过概念进行搜索。对于每门课程，教师都可以找到一个与所收集资源超链接的主题大纲。AP教师通过全国范围内举行的60，000多场大学理事会专业发展会议了解APDL。大学理事会致力于在其官方网站AP Central上收集这些信息，该网站拥有超过50，000名注册用户。虽然高级科学课程的学生和教师是这个集合的目标受众，但我们希望它对其他人有用，例如，大量的AP前教师，高中教师和参加非AP课程的学生，本科生和高等教育教师教授这些科目的入门课程。该项目的资金由NSF数学和物理科学理事会的多学科活动办公室提供，以表彰数字图书馆对学生学习资源的重要性。生物、化学和物理学科。