
Arkansas site leader Gay Stewart and future teachers discuss the design of an assessment.
PhysTEC Project Contact
University of Arkansas
Gay Stewart
Department of Physics
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Tel: 479-575-2408
Fax: 479-575-4580
University of Arkansas'
PhysTEC Website
Demographics at other PhysTEC Sites
Ball State University
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Cornell University
Florida International University
Seattle Pacific University
Towson University
University of Arizona
University of Arkansas
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Minnesota
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Western Michigan University
| PhysTEC Graduates | |||||||||||
| Grade Band | Baseline | Project | |||||||||
| Yr 1 1998- 1999 |
Yr 2 1999- 2000 |
Yr 3 2000- 2001 |
Yr 1 2001- 2002 |
Yr 2 2002- 2003 |
Yr 3 2003- 2004 |
Yr 4 2004- 2005 |
Yr 5 2005- 2006 |
Yr 6 2006- 2007 |
Yr 7 2007- 2008 |
Yr 8 2008- 2009 |
|
| 7-12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
(7-12 graduates are certified to teach physics.)
| PhysTEC Mentors and Mentees | |||||||||||
| Project Year | Project | ||||||||||
| Yr 1 1998- 1999 |
Yr 2 1999- 2000 |
Yr 3 2000- 2001 |
Yr 1 2001- 2002 |
Yr 2 2002- 2003 |
Yr 3 2003- 2004 |
Yr 4 2004- 2005 |
Yr 5 2005- 2006 |
Yr 6 2006- 2007 |
Yr 7 2007- 2008 |
Yr 8 2008- 2009 |
|
| PhysTEC Mentors (Current & Prior TIRs) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Mentored PhysTEC Teachers | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 24 | 26 | |||
| Mentored Non-PhysTEC Teachers | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
* While mentoring of preservice and inservice high school teachers remained essentially the same as initially envisioned by the project, and as described briefly in the TIR section, the mentoring of elementary teachers continued to blossom as a strong point in the local program, greatly increasing the number of teachers being effectively mentored. For now, please find an example of what elementary mentoring looks like, and why these numbers seem so large here.
| Enrollment-- PhysTEC Students | |||||||||||
| Course Type | Enrollment | Project | |||||||||
| Yr 1 1998- 1999 |
Yr 2 1999- 2000 |
Yr 3 2000- 2001 |
Yr 1 2001- 2002 |
Yr 2 2002- 2003 |
Yr 3 2003- 2004 |
Yr 3 2004- 2005 |
Yr 5 2005- 2006 |
Yr 6 2006- 2007 |
Yr 7 2007- 2008 |
Yr 8 2008- 2009 |
|
| Physics for Elementary Teachers (begun SP05) | 14 | 13 | 28 | 56 | 60 | ||||||