Goals

The Training and Planning Conference will

1) discuss how the SPIN-UP/TYC project is a natural next step for TYC21 and NTFUP/SPIN-UP activities

2) help participants define the role of site visits in identifying and describing "best practices" in TYC physics programs

3) train participants to collect and report in-depth information that can be used to verify and explain information collected through formal and informal surveys of TYC physics programs

OBJECTIVES

During the Training and Planning Conference, the participants will

1) analyze the meaning of the SPIN-UP/TYC Core Research Questions

2) critique and refine SPIN-UP/TYC Indicators describing a successful TYC physics program

3) propose a set of site visit protocol questions addressing the SPIN-UP/TYC Core Research Questions and Indicators of a successful TYC physics program

4) participate (by teams) in trial site visits

5) prepare (by teams) and critique site visit reports as to project goals

6) review the current documentation profiling TYC physics departments (e.g. 1998 AIP report on "Physics in the Two-Year Colleges")