Summer Seminars on Teaching Introductory Physics Using Interactive Methods and Computers

在这个为期两年的项目中，将在宾夕法尼亚州卡莱尔的迪金森学院举行为期两周的关于使用交互式方法和计算机教学入门物理的教师研讨会。这些讨论会将是1990年开始的一系列讨论会的一部分。研讨会的目标是帮助物理导论教师开发教学方法，使他们的学生能够使用指导性探究和计算机工具来探索“真实世界”的现象来学习物理。为期两周的研讨会将于1997年和1998年夏季举办，邀请30名与会者参加。主题包括：基于教育研究成果的互动教学策略；学生学习成果评估；实验室设计;计算机接口;使用电子表格和绘图包；数据和误差分析技术；实验室接口和实时数据分析在实验室和讲座演示中的应用数值问题解决和建模；以及用于研究运动、热和温度以及静电的数字视频帧捕获和分析。

PROJECT SUMMARY During the two-year span of this project, a two-week faculty seminar on Teaching Introductory Physics Using Interactive Methods and Computers will be held at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. These seminars will be part of a series that began in 1990. The goal of the seminars is to help introductory physics teachers develop pedagogical approaches that enable their students to learn physics using guided inquiry and computer tools to explore "real world" phenomena. The two-week seminar will be offered in the summers of 1997 and 1998 for thirty invited participants. Topics covered will include: interactive instructional strategies based on outcomes of educational research; assessment of student learning gains; laboratory design; computer interfacing; use of spreadsheets and graphing packages; data and error analysis techniques; the application of laboratory interfacing and real time data analysis to laboratories and lecture demonstrations; numerical problem solving and modeling; and digital video frame capture and analysis for the study of motion, heat and temperature, and electrostatics.