November 19 Seminar
Charter Room - Indiana Memorial
Union
- 8:30 - 9:00 am
Coffee
- 9:00 - 9:15 am
ACP Business
(Sharon Sperry)
- 9:15 - 9:30 am -
Introductory Remarks (Alex
Dzierba)
- 9:30 - 11:30 am -
Experience with Current
Courses (30 min each - see below)
- Phil McKinley
- Matthew Hitchings
- Robert Spencer
- 11:30 - 1:00 pm
Lunch in the Tudor Room
- 1:00 to 1:30 pm
Experience with Current
Courses (continued)
- 1:30 - 1:45 pm
Plans for the Course at Center
Grove (Stu Ball)
- 1:45 - 2:45 pm
Discussion of
Progress/Problems (led by Alex Dzierba)
- Curriculum
- Text
- Labs
- Homework problems
- Demonstrations
- Quizzes
- Exams
- Communicating via e-mail and the web
- 2:45 - 3:15 pm
Make up of the FInal
Exam (led by Alex. Dzierba)
- Procedure used by Chemistry and Calculus (Sharon
Sperry)
- One-session exam vs two-session exams
- Solitciting input from the teachers on a draft exam
- Procedures for security, answer keys, etc...
- Trial exam - before year's end?
- 3:15 - 3:30 pm
ACP Business
(Sharon Sperry)
- 5:30 pm -
Dinner in State Room East - followed
by:
- up to approx 8
pm - discussion with calculus
teachers (led by A.Dzierba/D. Maki)
Teachers of Current Courses -
Presentations
Discssion
Items
- Students
- Number in course
- Attendance
- Student profile
- Number taking for ACP credit
- Meeting times
- Text
- Your comments
- Student comments
- Problems
- Use of computers/calculators in the course
- Homework problems
- Labs
- Interactive Physics
- Curriculum
- Plan
- Actual realization
- Pace of the course
- Homework assigments
- Frequency
- Problems per assignment
- Grading policy
- Labs
- Number of periods devoted to lab work
- Integration with material taught
- Grading policy
- Lab work part of homework ?
- Quizzes
- Frequency
- Level of difficulty
- Grading policy
- Exams
- Frequency
- Level of difficulty
- Grading policy
- Administration
- regrading use of calculators
- formulae
- Demonstrations
- Any other issues