PER-CENTRAL: A Digital Library Supporting Physics Education Research

PER-CENTRAL：支持物理教育研究的数字图书馆

• 批准号: 0333555
• 负责人: Robert Beichner
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-01-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0333555&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PER; CENTRAL; Digital; Library; Supporting

This project teams up North Carolina State University and the American Association of Physics Teachers in the creation of a digital library serving the physics education research (PER) community as well as teachers wanting to use innovative, research-based instructional methods. The goal of this Collections project is to provide a virtual clearinghouse where researchers and teachers can easily find the very latest work in physics education along with the best of what has been learned from previous research. The efforts of this project include a) creation of a website archiving much of the existing PER literature; b) establishing a free electronic journal to facilitate the sharing of new findings in PER; c) collecting an annotated bibliography/database of PER articles from a variety of existing sources; d) providing detailed descriptions of PER-based curricula, along with links to the developers' sites; and e) assembling additional materials of use to the PER and teaching communities, including conference proceedings, syllabi from relevant courses, spreadsheets and web-based tools for statistical analysis, reviews of qualitative analysis equipment and software, links to existing discussion lists of researchers and teachers (PhysLrnr, Phys-L, plus archives), along with connections to a world-wide collection of research groups and individuals. The centerpiece of this effort is the creation of an electronic journal to support peer-reviewed electronic publication of PER research. A successful electronic journal will have enormous impact on the community, providing a much-needed avenue for scholarly research output that will be available freely to anyone with Internet access. A business plan is in place to sustain the effort after the conclusion of NSF support and the project has been endorsed by the editors of the American Journal of Physics (currently the main publication for researchers in the field). The Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) is providing significant co-funding of this project in recognition of the importance of physics education research to the mission of MPS.

该项目由北卡罗莱纳州立大学和美国物理教师协会合作创建一个数字图书馆，为物理教育研究（PER）社区以及想要使用创新的、基于研究的教学方法的教师服务。这个收集项目的目标是提供一个虚拟的信息交换中心，在那里研究人员和教师可以很容易地找到最新的物理教育工作，以及从以前的研究中学到的最好的东西。该项目的努力包括a)创建一个网站，将现有的大部分PER文献存档；b)建立免费电子期刊，以促进PER新发现的分享；c)从各种现有来源收集带注释的PER文章参考书目/数据库；d)提供基于per的课程的详细说明，以及开发者网站的链接；e)收集对PER和教学社区有用的额外材料，包括会议记录、相关课程的教学大纲、电子表格和基于网络的统计分析工具、定性分析设备和软件的评论、与现有研究人员和教师讨论列表的链接（PhysLrnr、physl - l以及档案），以及与世界各地研究小组和个人的连接。这项工作的核心是创建一个电子期刊，以支持PER研究的同行评审电子出版物。一份成功的电子期刊将对社区产生巨大的影响，为学术研究成果提供了一条急需的途径，任何人都可以通过互联网免费获得这些成果。在美国国家科学基金会的支持结束后，一份商业计划已经到位，以维持这项工作，该项目已经得到了美国物理杂志（目前该领域研究人员的主要出版物）编辑的认可。国家科学基金会数学和物理科学理事会（MPS）的多学科活动办公室认识到物理教育研究对MPS使命的重要性，为该项目提供了重要的联合资助。