Intermediate Mechanics Tutorials
Intermediate Mechanics Tutorials
Sponsored in part by NSF grants DUE-0441426 and DUE-0442388.
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USER LICENSE:
By using these materials, you are agreeing to participate in a larger research project which requires that we track course use of the materials and student learning in the course.
We base our license on the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License modified to include a share-back criterion:
Our modification of "share-back" includes that you agree to:
- send Bradley S. Ambrose or Michael C. Wittmann an email telling us
that you are using the materials.
Refer to the contact information at the bottom of the page for addresses. In your email, be as specific as possible about which materials you have used (or plan to use) in your class and give us a report on what you did (if possible). This is extremely important to us as we modify materials to be most appropriate for users. - "re-publish" any modifications you make by sending them back to us
(via email...).
We will update our materials if needed, or we will publish your version in parallel here online. It helps to have descriptions of the modifications so that future users can gain insight into your work. - send pretest, homework, and posttest data to us, as possible.
Data should consist of scanned or photocopied student responses to pretests, exams, and homework problems. Student names do not have to appear, though it is helpful to have such (or similar) information to allow for comparisons of pre- and post-instruction data. By gathering more data from courses using the materials, we are better able to understand how the materials work in different settings. In each case, you can receive a copy of our IRB human subjects approval to share with your institution's Institutional Review Board. We would like either electronic files of scanned materials or photocopies of materials.
By agreeing to the user license, you are helping us in our curriculum development and ensuring that high quality materials are created. We retain all publication rights to these materials, but are happy to share them as broadly as possible.
Intermediate Mechanics Tutorials are modeled after
- Tutorials in Introductory Physics, L.C. McDermott, P.S. Shaffer, and the Physics Education Group at the U. of Washington (Prentice Hall, 2002)
- Activity-Based Tutorials, M.C. Wittmann, R.N. Steinberg, E.F. Redish, and the University of Maryland Physics Education Research Group (Wiley, 2004 and 2005)
Contact Information
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Michael C. Wittmann
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