Collaborative Research: Fostering integration of computational practices into physics courses - A local communities approach

长期以来的研究证明了将计算物理引入本科课程的必要性。未来的劳动力需要具备计算能力——思维能力、技能和实践能力。该项目是对需求的回应，并提出了使用基于研究的框架探索新的变化模型。框架-将计算引入本科物理的结构和研究策略诞生于2006年，由计算整合到本科物理的伙伴关系（PICUP）开发。这一合作研究探索的目的是设计和测试对该框架的调整，使其有效和可持续，并可通过复制扩大规模。这是一个以本项目为中心的概念验证研究，该项目试图通过从基层开始的教师发展来进行重大的课程改革。以研究为基础的PICUP框架在美国物理教师协会（AAPT）的分部会议上被用于地方方法，随后是参与教师之间广泛的协作开发工作。以研究为基础的教师发展在区域站点实施，并通过在47个AAPT部门中的任何一个部门进行复制来扩大规模。评估计划的核心是评估这种新方法如何帮助计算社区发展。经验丰富的评估人员正在开发度量进度的度量标准。

Studies have for a long time documented the need to introduce computational physics into the undergraduate curriculum. The future workforce needs to be computationally competent-in thinking as well as in skills and practice. This project is a response to the need and proposes exploration into a new change model using a research-based Framework. The Framework - a structure and a research strategy for introducing computation into undergraduate physics was born in 2006 and developed by the Partnership for Integration of Computation into Undergraduate Physics (PICUP). The purpose of this collaborative research exploration is to design and test an adaptation of the Framework that is effective and sustainable and that can be scaled up by replication. It is a proof of concept study centered on this project's attempt at significant curricular reform through faculty development starting at the grass roots. The research-based PICUP Framework is used in a local approach at a sectional meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) followed by extensive collaborative development work among participating faculty. Research-based faculty development is implemented at regional sites and is scaled up by replication in any of the 47 AAPT sections. Central to the evaluation plan is assessing how this novel approach helps a computational community to develop. An experienced evaluator is developing metrics to measure progress.