M&I curriculum at UT since Fall09: 303K/L instructors participated is listed below.
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303K |
TA session |
303L |
TA session |
Fall09 |
Chiu |
SGD (Small Group Discussions) & Modeling |
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Spring10 |
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Chiu |
SGD & Modeling |
Fall10 |
Chelikowsky, Chiu |
SGD & Modeling |
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SGD & Modeling |
Spring11 |
Turner (2) Florin (2) |
SGD & Modeling |
chiu |
SGD & Modeling |
Fall11 |
Antoniewicz (2), Haley, Swinney |
SGD & Modeling |
Chiu, Turner (2) |
SGD & Modeling |
Spring12 |
Haley, Florin(2), Rodenbaum, Swinney, Turner(2) |
SGD & Modeling |
Antoniewicz (2) Chiu |
SGD |
Summer 12 |
303L curriculum development |
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Fall12 |
Swinney, Turner(2), TBA |
SGD & Modeling |
Chiu, Fiete, Gentle, Yao, Yeazell |
SGD |
Spring13 |
Swinney, TBA |
SGD & Modeling |
Chiu, Li, Turner(2), Yeazell |
SGD |
· Learning assistant related information:
o LA reports: See Spring2011 links.
o Survey results: There are survey questions related to LAs. Please look for “For LA question(s), see …”
· The four-question survey in Fall11 and Spring12 indicates a general consensus among students who took the survey
o Most students like the textbook, it stresses understanding physics based on general priniciples and easy to follow.
o Most students would recommend M&I curriculum to future engineering physics students.
o Our use of Quest system for homework and exams work reasonably well.
· Over the summer, our 303L curriculum development project is to improve homework sets and improve design of small group discussions in TA sessions. Chiu will supervise graduate assistants Josh Hebert and Manasvi Lingam and undergraduate assistant Phillipe Dollo. Our long term goal is to fine-tune the syllabus to develop a UT-version of the MI-curriculum, which can be accepted by 303K/L instructors in our department.
· Vpython modeling is an integrated part of 303K TA session activities. Presently in 303L we do not have enough manpower to support modeling activities. For now the 303L TA session is exclusively focused on the small group discussion activities.