Thinking in Physics

物理(13)。该项目旨在帮助学生提高他们的推理能力、态度和对学习的信念，为STEM领域的成功职业生涯奠定基础。该项目是：1)创建用于培养学生推理能力的教学材料和方法；2)提高学生在物理推理能力、学习信念和概念理解方面的教学后表现；3)提高STEM学生的保留率和平均绩点。本项目基于科学教育认知加速（CASE）、Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment （FIE）和数字关系（NR）项目，开发适合大学生的教学材料和方法。智力优势：理工科学生必须理解物理学的基本概念，并具备较强的科学推理能力。这个项目提供了以一种原创的、创造性的方式来构建这些关键特征的方法。PI和Co-PI对认知发展，如何评估它，以及它与物理概念理解的联系有广泛的了解。外部顾问是物理教育研究、认知发展和该领域现有项目的专家。该项目将研究型教学法与评估相结合。更广泛的影响：该项目对社会具有巨大的潜在效益，它使许多学生（包括那些可能很难上大学的科学课程的代表性不足的群体的成员）有可能从事科学和工程方面的职业。该项目的影响将通过为大学教员举办的当地讲习班、在国家会议上的发言、在同行评议的期刊上发表的出版物和分发基于网络的材料广泛传播。

Physics (13). This project provides help for students to improve their reasoning skills, attitudes, and beliefs about learning in order to build the foundation for successful careers in STEM. The project is: 1) creating instructional materials and methods that will be used to develop students' reasoning skills; 2) improving students' post instruction performance on measures of reasoning ability, beliefs about learning, and conceptual understanding in physics; and 3) improving retention rates and grade point averages of STEM students. This project develops instructional material and methods appropriate for college students that are based upon the Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education (CASE), Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment, (FIE), and Numerical Relationships (NR) programs. Intellectual Merit: Both understanding of basic concepts in physics and strong scientific reasoning ability are essential for science and engineering majors. This project provides the means to build these critical characteristics in an original, creative way. The PI and Co-PI have extensive knowledge of cognitive development, how to assess it, and its connection to conceptual understanding in physics. The external consultants are experts in physics education research, cognitive development, and an extant program in this field. The project blends research-based pedagogy and assessment. Broader Impact: The project has great potential benefit to society by making careers in science and engineering possible for many students including members of underrepresented groups who might otherwise find college-level science courses very difficult. The project impact will be broadly disseminated through local workshops for college instructors, presentations at national conferences, publications in peer reviewed journals, and distribution of web-based materials.