Case Study 2 Collaborative Workshop Physics

Physics education research conducted primarily in North American university and K-12 school contexts over the last 20 years has created a rich literature of assessment instmments, pedagogies, instmctional strategies, and reform project success stories. Collaborative Workshop Physics (CWP) is an instmctional strategy designed to adapt and implement best practices and content from this corpus of work to an introductory calculus-based physics course for engineering undergraduate students at KU of science, technology, and research in the UAE. 

The second paper, by Hake, definitively established the superiority of pedagogical alternatives to traditional, passive-audience lecturing on the basis of a large body of FCI data. R. Hake s data set included class-averaged FCI scores gathered 

Apply Newton s laws to find equations of motion for simple mechanical systems 

Understand and use important physical concepts, such as force, work, energy, momentum, and mechanical equilibrium 

Use energy and momentum concepts to analyze simple mechanical systems 

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Fig. 4.1 A simple model of the course reform process. The case study for Collaborative workshop physics focuses on the design problem part of the process...

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