Seattle Pacific University site leader Stamatis Vokos and students do a force-and-motion experiment.

 

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Seattle Pacific University Project Report 2009

Demographics

PhysTEC Definitions

Year	PhysTEC Elementary Graduates	PhysTEC Secondary Graduates	Physics Endorsements
2000-01		≤1	1
2001-02		≤1	1
2002-03		≤2	2
2003-04		≤5	5
2004-05		≤5	5
2005-06	8	5	7
2006-07	13	3	3
2007-08	22	2	3
2008-09	16	4	5

Commentary on Graduates data

• These are all graduates who will begin classroom teaching on or before Fall 2009.
• We can only place an upper limit on the number of PhysTEC secondary graduates prior to 2005-06 because we are unable to obtain information on the academic major of students graduating prior to the beginning to the project.
• We have considered a major in astronomy or mechanical engineering to represent preparation equivalent to a minor in physics.  We have not considered a major in electrical engineering to be equivalent.

Mentors and Mentees
	Baseline	Baseline	Baseline	Project	Project	Project	Project
	Year 1 2003- 2004	Year 2 2004- 2005	Year 3 2005- 2006	Year 1 2006- 2007	Year 2 2007- 2008	Year 3 2008- 2009	Year 4 2009- 2010
PhysTEC Mentors (Current and Prior TIRs)			1	1	2	3
PhysTEC Mentees
Mentored PhysTEC Elementary Teachers						1
Mentored PhysTEC Secondary Teachers				0	0	3
Mentored Non-PhysTEC Teachers				0	0	2
Mentored PhysTEC Teacher Interns					1	2
Mentored Non-PhysTEC Teacher Interns						3

Commentary on mentors and mentees data:

• We have included all teachers who were formally mentored by PhysTEC TIR’s or VMT’s during their first or second year of classroom teaching.
• We have included teacher interns whose students teaching experience was officially supervised by PhysTEC VMT’s.

PhysTEC Enrollment
Course Type	Baseline	Baseline	Baseline	Project	Project	Project	Project
	Year 1 2003- 2004	Year 2 2004- 2005	Year 3 2005- 2006	Year 1 2006- 2007	Year 2 2007- 2008	Year 3 2008- 2009	Year 4 2009- 2010
Algebra-based Physics	56	64	69	51	56	49
Intro: Nature of Science	63	98	139	62	50
Honors Liberal Arts Physics	13	13	21	26	23	29
Calculus-based Physics	47	36	40	59	35	34
Physics of Sound	-	60	59	55	57
Envrntl. Ed. For Elem Tch	-	42	38	18	29	41
Totals	179	313	366	271	250	153

  Commentary on enrollment data:

• We have included enrollment data for all of the introductory science courses that have been reformed by PhysTEC faculty.
• In all of these courses the need for physics and physical science teachers is explicitly mentioned.
• We included only the first quarter of the year-long introductory sequence courses.