Development of Active Learning Materials for Undergraduate Introductory Astronomy Students

天文学（11）本项目正在为非科学专业和职前教育专业的一个大规模招生、科学概论课程编写一系列创新的课堂教学材料。最后的材料包，称为Lecture-Tuesday，是一个独立的，课堂上准备好的产品，用于协作的学生学习小组。这些材料是专门设计的，可以很容易地融入传统的讲座课程。因此，该产品直接满足了忙碌的研究人员和繁重的教学人员对有效的、以学生为中心的、课堂上准备好的材料的需求，这些材料不需要对课程进行大幅修改。为这个项目开发的讲座教学是基于对学生误解的教育研究，证明有效的教学策略，以及广泛的试点和实地测试。材料开发程序为其他提供类似大规模招生入门课程的科学学科提供了国家模式。项目调查人员主要通过专业科学会议上的讲习班传播这些材料，此外还提供印刷版和网络版。

Astronomy (11) This project is developing a series of innovative classroom instructional materials for a large enrolment, introductory science survey course for non-science and pre-service education majors. The final materials package, called Lecture-Tutorials, is a self-contained, classroom-ready product for use with collaborative student learning groups. The materials are designed specifically to be easily integrated into the conventional lecture course. As such, this product directly addresses the needs of busy researchers and heavily-loaded teaching faculty for effective, student-centered, classroom-ready materials that do not require a drastic course revision for implementation. The Lecture-Tutorials developed for this project are based upon educational research on student misconceptions, demonstrated effective instructional strategies, and extensive pilot and field-testing. The materials-development procedure serves as a national model for other science disciplines that provide similar large-enrollment introductory courses. The project investigators are primarily disseminating these materials through workshops at professional science meetings in addition to making print and Web versions readily available.