ComPADRE Pathway II: Sustaining Physics and Astronomy Resources for Education

ComPADRE 途径 II：维持物理和天文学教育资源

• 批准号: 0937836
• 负责人: Bruce Mason
• 金额: $ 49.3万
• 依托单位: American Association of Physics Teachers
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0937836&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ComPADRE; Pathway; II; Sustaining; Physics

The ComPADRE digital library is an NSDL Pathway to support Physics and Astronomy Education. ComPADRE supports a network of resource collections targeted at specific audiences and provides specialized tools and services for communications, sharing, and content development. The ComPADRE support for different resource collections, each focused on a particular physics or astronomy community of educators and learners, puts resources in the context of their use for learning. ComPADRE Editors and collaborators created 14 resource collections for communities including high school teachers, undergraduate science majors, and university faculty teaching advanced courses. The Physics and Astronomy education community has recognized ComPADRE as an important partner in the support of educators and learners and in the dissemination of best practices in science education. ComPADRE collaborates with curriculum development projects and education researchers to distribute proven learning resources. ComPADRE continues to strengthen existing collaborations and establish new collaboration using web enabled interest groups and by featuring curriculum sequences to highlight the best uses of the materials available. ComPADRE also is reaching new users through expanded workshops and tutorials, both live and online, in collaboration with professional societies and other partners. ComPADRE is using the technical and outreach capabilities of the NSDL to extend its web services and connect resources to education standards. The ComPADRE technical staff and editors are in the process of streamlining the project infrastructure and operations to become more sustainable.Intellectual Merit: The ComPADRE team selects teaching and learning resources of the highest quality with particular consideration given to proven effectiveness. Collaborations with physics education researchers, curriculum developers, and the professional societies place ComPADRE in the midst of the latest in research and development to improve learning and teaching best practices. For these materials, researchers have shown positive learning impact but need more information about usage outside of the research setting. ComPADRE provides a platform for both disseminating these resources and gathering information on how they are being used by teachers and students. Surveys, requests for comment, and virtual focus groups are being used to study content usage, as well as improve the design and dissemination efforts of ComPADRE.Broader Impact: Many of ComPADRE's projects and collaborations directly supportbroader communities and meet national STEM needs. ComPADRE provides technical support for virtual mentoring of high school students by physicists, increasing their exposure to real science. ComPADRE hosts a coalition for improving the training of physical science teachers, a great need in this country. ComPADRE provides resources to help undergraduate physics and astronomy majors become integrated into the physics community, an outcome that can strengthen the nation's science workforce. ComPADRE resource collections and outreach efforts are aimed at supporting new physics teachers to help keep them in the classroom.

CompADRE数字图书馆是支持物理学和天文学教育的NSDL途径。CompADRE支持针对特定受众的资源收集网络，并为通信、共享和内容开发提供专门的工具和服务。CompADRE支持不同的资源集合，每一个集中在一个特定的物理学或天文学社区的教育工作者和学习者，把资源的背景下，他们用于学习。Compadre的编辑和合作者为社区创建了14个资源集，包括高中教师、本科理科专业和教授高级课程的大学教师。物理学和天文学教育界已将CompADRE视为支持教育工作者和学习者以及传播科学教育最佳做法的重要合作伙伴。Compadre与课程开发项目和教育研究人员合作，分发经过验证的学习资源。CompADRE继续加强现有的合作，并建立新的合作，利用网络启用的兴趣小组，并通过突出课程序列，以突出现有材料的最佳使用。CompADRE还与专业协会和其他合作伙伴合作，通过扩大现场和在线研讨会和教程接触新用户。CompADRE正在利用NSDL的技术和推广能力来扩展其网络服务，并将资源与教育标准联系起来。CompADRE的技术人员和编辑人员正在精简项目的基础设施和操作，使其更具可持续性。智力优势：CompADRE团队选择最高质量的教学和学习资源，并特别考虑已证明的有效性。与物理教育研究人员，课程开发人员和专业协会的合作将Compadre置于最新的研究和开发之中，以改善学习和教学的最佳实践。对于这些材料，研究人员已经显示出积极的学习影响，但需要更多关于研究环境之外的使用信息。CompADRE为传播这些资源和收集教师和学生如何使用这些资源的信息提供了一个平台。调查、征求意见和虚拟焦点小组被用来研究内容使用情况，以及改进CompADRE的设计和传播工作。更广泛的影响：CompADRE的许多项目和合作直接支持更广泛的社区，满足国家STEM需求。CompADRE为物理学家对高中生的虚拟指导提供技术支持，增加他们接触真实的科学的机会。Compadre主办了一个联盟，以改善物理科学教师的培训，在这个国家的巨大需求。CompADRE提供资源，帮助本科物理学和天文学专业融入物理学界，这一结果可以加强国家的科学劳动力。COMPADRE资源收集和推广工作的目的是支持新的物理教师，以帮助他们留在课堂上。