Project Piedmont

这个项目将进行研究，以检验这样一种假设，即当高中物理教师学习一种有指导的、亲身实践的探究教学方法并将其应用于学生时，学生将更好地理解物理，并对科学产生更大的兴趣。此外，这将导致学生在以后的教育活动中继续学习科学，并可能开始科学事业。这项研究将涉及一项双链研究，将教师参加过强调特殊技能的教师提升项目的学生与没有参加过教师培训项目的学生进行比较。这项研究将分离和量化一些指标，这些指标确定学生在多大程度上受到教师的影响，使用的是在教师培训讲习班上开发的技术。研究结果将有助于指导教师提升计划的发展。该机构提供的30%与NSF的拨款相匹配。

This project will carry out research to test the hypothesis that when high school physics teachers learn a guided, hands-on inquiry approach to teaching physics and apply this to their students, the student will develop a better understanding of physics and become more interested in science. Furthermore this will result in students continuing to take science in their later educational activities and perhaps embarking upon science careers. The research will involve a double strand study comparing students whose teachers have taken teacher enhancement projects emphasizing special techniques with those whose teachers who have not. The research will isolate and quantify indicators which determine the extent to which students have been influenced by teachers using techniques developed in teacher enhancement workshops. The results will help guide the development of teacher enhancement programs. The institution is providing a 30% match to the NSF grant.