ComPADRE Pathway II: Sustaining Physics and Astronomy Resources for Education

COMPADRE数字图书馆是一条支持物理和天文教育的NSDL途径。Compadre支持针对特定受众的资源集合网络，并为通信、共享和内容开发提供专门的工具和服务。对不同资源集合的比较支持，每个资源集合都侧重于教育工作者和学习者的特定物理或天文学社区，将资源放在学习使用的背景下。Compadre编辑和合作者为社区创建了14个资源集合，其中包括高中教师、本科理科专业的学生和教授高级课程的大学教师。物理学和天文学教育界承认，在支持教育者和学习者以及传播科学教育最佳做法方面，COMPADRE是一个重要的合作伙伴。Compadre与课程开发项目和教育研究人员合作，分发经过验证的学习资源。Compadre继续加强现有的合作，并利用支持网络的兴趣小组和通过突出可用材料的最佳使用的课程序列来建立新的合作。Compadre还与专业协会和其他合作伙伴合作，通过扩大现场和在线讲习班和教程接触到新用户。Compadre正在利用NSDL的技术和扩展能力来扩展其Web服务并将资源连接到教育标准。Compadre的技术人员和编辑正在精简项目基础设施和运营，以使其更具可持续性。智慧的优点：Compadre团队选择最高质量的教学资源，并特别考虑已证明的有效性。与物理教育研究人员、课程开发人员和专业协会的合作将Compadre置于最新的研究和开发中，以改进学习和教学的最佳实践。对于这些材料，研究人员已经显示出积极的学习影响，但需要更多关于研究环境之外的使用信息。Compadre提供了一个平台，既可以传播这些资源，也可以收集教师和学生如何使用这些资源的信息。调查、征求意见和虚拟焦点小组正被用于研究内容使用情况，以及改进ComPADRE的设计和传播工作。广泛的影响：Compadre的许多项目和合作直接支持更广泛的社区，并满足国家STEM需求。Compadre为物理学家对高中生的虚拟辅导提供技术支持，增加他们接触真实科学的机会。Comadre主办了一个改善物理教师培训的联盟，这在这个国家是非常需要的。Compadre提供资源，帮助本科物理和天文学专业的学生融入物理学社区，这一结果可以加强国家的科学劳动力。Compadre资源收集和推广工作的目的是支持新的物理教师，帮助他们留在课堂上。

The ComPADRE digital library is an NSDL Pathway to support Physics and Astronomy Education. ComPADRE supports a network of resource collections targeted at specific audiences and provides specialized tools and services for communications, sharing, and content development. The ComPADRE support for different resource collections, each focused on a particular physics or astronomy community of educators and learners, puts resources in the context of their use for learning. ComPADRE Editors and collaborators created 14 resource collections for communities including high school teachers, undergraduate science majors, and university faculty teaching advanced courses. The Physics and Astronomy education community has recognized ComPADRE as an important partner in the support of educators and learners and in the dissemination of best practices in science education. ComPADRE collaborates with curriculum development projects and education researchers to distribute proven learning resources. ComPADRE continues to strengthen existing collaborations and establish new collaboration using web enabled interest groups and by featuring curriculum sequences to highlight the best uses of the materials available. ComPADRE also is reaching new users through expanded workshops and tutorials, both live and online, in collaboration with professional societies and other partners. ComPADRE is using the technical and outreach capabilities of the NSDL to extend its web services and connect resources to education standards. The ComPADRE technical staff and editors are in the process of streamlining the project infrastructure and operations to become more sustainable.Intellectual Merit: The ComPADRE team selects teaching and learning resources of the highest quality with particular consideration given to proven effectiveness. Collaborations with physics education researchers, curriculum developers, and the professional societies place ComPADRE in the midst of the latest in research and development to improve learning and teaching best practices. For these materials, researchers have shown positive learning impact but need more information about usage outside of the research setting. ComPADRE provides a platform for both disseminating these resources and gathering information on how they are being used by teachers and students. Surveys, requests for comment, and virtual focus groups are being used to study content usage, as well as improve the design and dissemination efforts of ComPADRE.Broader Impact: Many of ComPADRE's projects and collaborations directly supportbroader communities and meet national STEM needs. ComPADRE provides technical support for virtual mentoring of high school students by physicists, increasing their exposure to real science. ComPADRE hosts a coalition for improving the training of physical science teachers, a great need in this country. ComPADRE provides resources to help undergraduate physics and astronomy majors become integrated into the physics community, an outcome that can strengthen the nation's science workforce. ComPADRE resource collections and outreach efforts are aimed at supporting new physics teachers to help keep them in the classroom.