Physics Education Research User's Guide

物理教育研究用户指南

• 批准号: 0840853
• 负责人: Sarah McKagan
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: American Association of Physics Teachers
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-11-01 至 2012-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0840853&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Physics; Education; Research; User; Guide

This project is creating a Web-based resource for physics faculty to learn best practices for the use of teaching and learning techniques and curricula based on the results of Physics Education Research (PER), so that they can teach physics more effectively. This resource, called the "PER User's Guide," is helping educators by summarizing, condensing, and translating the vast web of knowledge contained in the field of PER into a format that is easily accessible, enabling educators to quickly find and use the information they need. The development includes collecting existing resources, writing new content to help educators understand these resources, and creating a dynamic structure that allows educators to find what they are looking for as efficiently as possible. Both the content and the structure of the site are based on research into user needs and user testing to ensure that it is maximally effective. Built in is effective use of Web 2.0 technologies, which ultimately allow experts from the PER community to edit content and educators to rate and comment on content, all without the need for explicit mediation.This project improves physics education at the college and high school levels throughout the world by providing a free, Web-based resource that delivers comprehensive, accessible, and pragmatic information about PER, including curricula, educational resources, pedagogical approaches, and research findings. The Guide gives educators access to the latest developments in education research and how to apply them in their classrooms, as well as access to the broad foundation upon which these techniques are based. The creation of the Guide is coupled with a dissemination and outreach campaign that takes advantage of collaborations with many well-known organizations to increase both awareness and use among physics educators in the United States and beyond. This project is helping the broader science education research community by contributing to the base of research on user interface design and outreach to educators, and by building a prototype design that can be used and adapted for educators in other fields of science. Future extensions of the project will build on this initial seed to include more detailed content and to target a broader audience.The outcomes of the project include (1) a well-tested prototype Web site with content designed to help college and high school educators learn about PER, (2) a body of research on what educators need to help them use the content and infrastructure of the site effectively, and (3) a set of software tools and guidelines that can be adapted by educators who would like to design similar sites in other disciplines.This Guide is an extension of an NSDL Pathways project, the ComPADRE Physics and Astronomy Pathway (http://www.compadre.org/). The Guide enhances the materials in the ComPADRE collection by presenting results and curricula of PER in the context of their application in effective teaching.

该项目正在为物理教师创建一个基于Web的资源，以学习基于物理教育研究（PER）结果的教学和学习技术和课程的最佳实践，以便他们能够更有效地教授物理。这一资源被称为“PER用户指南”，通过总结、浓缩和翻译PER领域所包含的庞大知识网络，帮助教育工作者将其转化为易于访问的格式，使教育工作者能够快速找到并使用他们所需的信息。开发包括收集现有资源，编写新内容以帮助教育工作者理解这些资源，并创建一个动态结构，使教育工作者能够尽可能有效地找到他们正在寻找的内容。网站的内容和结构都是根据对用户需求的研究和用户测试确定的，以确保网站发挥最大的效力。内置的是Web 2.0技术的有效使用，最终允许PER社区的专家编辑内容，教育工作者对内容进行评分和评论，所有这些都不需要明确的调解。该项目通过提供免费的基于Web的资源来改善世界各地大学和高中的物理教育，该资源提供有关PER的全面、易于访问和实用的信息，包括课程、教育资源、教学方法和研究成果。该指南为教育工作者提供了教育研究的最新发展，以及如何将其应用于课堂，以及这些技术所基于的广泛基础。在编写《指南》的同时，还开展了传播和外联活动，利用与许多知名组织的合作，提高美国及其他地区物理教育工作者的认识和使用。该项目正在帮助更广泛的科学教育研究界，为用户界面设计和教育工作者外联的研究基础做出贡献，并建立了一个可供其他科学领域的教育工作者使用和调整的原型设计。该项目的未来扩展将建立在这个最初的种子，包括更详细的内容，并以更广泛的受众为目标。该项目的成果包括：（1）一个经过良好测试的原型网站，其内容旨在帮助大学和高中教育工作者了解PER，（2）一个关于教育工作者需要什么来帮助他们有效地使用网站的内容和基础设施的研究机构，以及（3）一套软件工具和指南，可供希望在其他学科设计类似网站的教育工作者使用。本指南是NSDL Pathways项目CompPADRE物理和天文学Pathway（http：//www.compadre.org/）的扩展。 该指南通过介绍公共教育的成果和课程在有效教学中的应用，加强了CompADRE收集的材料。