Physics Pathways - Initial Step

物理途径-初始步骤是北卡罗莱纳州立大学物理系五年倡议的第一阶段，旨在改善和扩大低级别物理课程的学生在技术丰富的环境中学习的机会。“最初的一步”是将现有的利用互动课件（物理1和2）解决物理问题的教学计划从每学期50名学生扩展到每学期1000名学生。通过将50个IBM学生工作站联网并安装课程管理器，我们能够为大型服务课程提供一个学生-一台计算机学习环境。此外，扩建后的PCIC设施每学期使用两次，以评估和监督基本实验室技能的发展，如误差分析、有效数字和曲线拟合。物理路径项目在全面运作后，将为学生提供他们希望如何学习的选择。这一初步步骤有助于开始提高可用于教学大量学生的微型计算机的质量和数量。这个项目所要解决的问题是许多大型大学共同面临的。如果物理路径-初始步骤是成功的，我们正在开发的模型将被转移到其他设置。

Physics Pathways - Initial Step is the first phase of a five- year initiative in the Department of Physics at North Carolina State University to improve and extend opportunities for students in lower-division physics courses to learn in a technologically rich environment. This Initial Step is expanding the existing program of teaching problem solving in physics using interactive courseware (Physics 1 and 2) from 50 students per semester to 1,000 students per semester. By networking 50 IBM student workstations and installing a curriculum manager, we are able to offer a one student-one computer learning environment for large service courses. In addition, the expanded PCIC facility is being used twice per semester to assess and monitor the development of basic laboratory skills such as error analysis, significant figures, and curve fitting. The Physics Pathways program, when fully operational, will offer choices to students for how they wish to learn. This Initial Step is helping to initiate the scaling up of both the quality and number of microcomputers available for teaching large numbers of students. The problems being attacked by this project are common to many large universities. If Physics Pathways - Initial Step is successful, the model we are developing will be transferrable to other settings.