Collaborative Research: PhysPort's impact on teaching practice

PhysPort（http：//www.example.com）是一个领先的在线专业发展工具，支持物理教师在课堂上实施基于研究的教学和评估，通过专家建议有关教学，评估和物理教育研究的结果。物理教育研究人员已经开发了各种工具，大大提高了学生的物理学习，并已被其他STEM领域采用和调整。然而，即使是那些意识到教育研究并积极改进教学的教育工作者，也很难得到必要的支持来有效地实施研究性教学。该项目将研究该工具对物理教师教学实践的影响，进行研究以提高该工具的有效性，并进一步了解在线资源如何支持跨STEM学科的教师教学实践。 该项目的目标是通过多种方法来衡量PhysPort对教师教学实践的影响，包括网站分析，网站反馈，可用性测试和教学实践访谈。这些测量将确定该网站是否正在实现其目标，以及如何改进以充分发挥其潜力。此外，它们还提供了教师如何使用在线专业发展工具的信息，这些工具可以应用于所有STEM学科的类似工具的开发。这个项目夫妇现象学分析教师的看法物理港的影响与定量分析他们使用的网站。与教师谁是计划或最近改变了他们的教学实践的访谈将使用transtheorical模型来跟踪教师的态度和行为，通过改变过程。这项研究的结果将被用来实施改变物理港的资源和传播给其他研究人员在教师的变化。

PhysPort (http://physport.org) is a leading online professional development tool that supports physics faculty in implementing research-based teaching and assessment in their classrooms through expert recommendations about teaching, assessment, and results from physics education research. Physics education researchers have produced a variety of tools that vastly improve student learning of physics, and that have been adopted and adapted for other STEM fields. However, even educators who are aware of education research and highly motivated to improve their teaching have trouble getting necessary support to implement research-based teaching effectively. This project will study the impact of this tool for physics faculty teaching practice, conduct research to increase the tool's effectiveness, and advance understanding of how online resources can support faculty teaching practices across STEM disciplines. The goals of this project are to measure the impact of PhysPort on faculty teaching practice through multiple methods, including web analytics, website feedback, usability testing, and interviews about teaching practice. These measurements will determine whether the site is achieving its goals and how it can be improved to reach its full potential. Additionally, they provide information on how faculty use online professional development tools in general, which can be applied to the development of similar tools for all STEM disciplines. This project couples phenomenographic analyses of faculty perceptions of PhysPort's impact with quantitative analysis of their usage of the site. Interviews with faculty who are planning to or have recently changed their teaching practice will use the transtheoretical model to track faculty attitudes and behaviors through the change process. The results of this research will be used to implement changes to PhysPort's resources and disseminated to other researchers in faculty change.