A Model for Physics Education in Physics Departments: Improving the Teaching of Physics from Elementary through Graduate School

该项目是华盛顿大学物理系物理教育小组进行的五年多方位计划的第四和第五年。 该计划包括一组相互关联的项目，重点是本科课程的改进，教师的准备和提高，以及大学教师的发展。 在最初的建议中明确确定的总体目标是：（1）扩大我们对学生如何学习物理的知识，（2）增加学生在大学物理入门课程中的学习，（3）准备（K-12）在职教师将科学作为一个探究的过程进行教学，以及（4）提高学院和大学教师的教学效率。 此外，第五项活动已发展成为一项主要目标：（5）在全国范围内传播研究、课程编制和教学创新方面的工作。 该项目通过继续调查学生对物理的理解来实现第一个目标。 它正在努力实现第二和第三个目标，使用正在进行的研究结果作为指导，在开发教学材料的入门物理学生和在职教师。 它正在努力实现第四个目标，通过开发一个示范计划，为物理学研究生和博士后研究助理准备他们作为未来教师的教学责任，并通过为新的和有经验的教师进行讲座和讲习班，物理教育研究及其作为课程开发和评估指南的使用。 为了实现第五个目标，它发表了关于这项工作的文章，并为大学教师和学前教师举办了研讨会和讲习班，以促进在两个主要课程开发项目《入门物理学》和《探究物理学》中使用教程。 《物理学导论教程》旨在补充标准入门课程的讲义和教科书。 这些教程旨在让学生在足够深的智力水平上发展必要的概念和推理技能，以实现对材料的功能性理解。 物理探究是一门以实验室为基础的课程，旨在由学院和大学教师使用，以准备预科教师教授物理和物理科学作为一个探究的过程。

The project is the fourth and fifth years of a five-year multi-faceted program conducted by the Physics Education Group in the Physics Department of the University of Washington. The program consists of a group of interrelated projects that focus on undergraduate course improvement, teacher preparation and enhancement, and university faculty development. The overall goals explicitly identified in the original proposal are: (1) to expand our knowledge of how students learn physics, (2) to increase student learning in the introductory university physics course, (3) to prepare (K-12) preservice and inservice teachers to teach science as a process of inquiry, and (4) to improve the teaching effectiveness of college and university faculty. In addition, a fifth activity has evolved into a major goal: (5) national dissemination of the work in research, curriculum development and instructional innovation. The project is working toward the first goal by continuing the investigation of student understanding in physics. It is working toward the second and third goals by using results from this ongoing research as a guide in developing instructional materials for introductory physics students and for preservice and inservice teachers. It is working toward the fourth goal by developing a model program for preparing physics graduate students and post-doctoral research associates for their teaching responsibilities as future faculty and by giving talks and conducting workshops for new and experienced faculty on physics education research and its use as a guide in the development and assessment of curriculum. It is working toward the fifth goal by publishing articles about the work and by conducting seminars and workshops for university faculty and precollege teachers to promote the use of Tutorials in Introductory Physics and Physics by Inquiry, two major curriculum development projects. Tutorials in Introductory Physics is intended to supplement the lectures and textbook of a stan dard introductory course. The tutorials are designed to engage students at a sufficiently deep intellectual level to develop the concepts and reasoning skills necessary to achieve a functional understanding of the material. Physics by Inquiry is a laboratory-based curriculum designed to be used by college and university faculty to prepare precollege teachers to teach physics and physical science as a process of inquiry.