M&I curriculum at UT since Fall09: 303K/L instructors participated is listed below.

 

303K

TA session

303L

TA session

Fall09

Chiu

SGD (Small Group Discussions)  & Modeling

 

 

Spring10

 

 

Chiu

SGD & Modeling

Fall10

Chelikowsky, Chiu

SGD & Modeling

 

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 

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.