Materials for Developing Concept-Based Problem Solving Skills in Physics

我们建议为学生和教师开发课程材料，旨在帮助学生将概念整合到经典力学领域的问题解决中。这些材料将通过提供家庭作业和课堂练习来补充传统教学，使学生能够积极参与突出基于概念的问题解决的问题解决活动，并为教师提供加强这种方法的教学策略。这些材料将与高中物理教师合作设计，并将基于丰富的认知研究。这项拟议的工作试图通过鼓励概念方法来补充学生几乎完全依赖公式化方法解决问题的倾向。

We propose to develop curriculum materials for both students and teachers aimed at helping students integrate concepts into problem solving in the domain of classical mechanics. The materials will supplement traditional instruction by providing homework and in-class exercises that would allow students to actively engage in problem solving activities that highlight concept-based problem solving, and by providing teachers with instructional strategies to reinforce the approach. The materials will be designed in collaboration with high school physics teachers and will be based on a rich body of cognitive research. The proposed work is an attempt to complement students' proclivity to rely almost exclusively on formulaic approaches to problem solving by encouraging conceptual approaches.