Consortium for the Advancement of Physics Education: Three Years of Activity

Abstract

In January 1969, Kansas State University joined with six non-Ph.D. granting institutions to form the Consortium for the Advancement of Physics Education (CAPE). CAPE has conducted a number of programs, supported mainly by an NSF COSIP-B grant. These programs include junior-senior student symposia, senior honors research projects, junior-senior summer research assistantships, faculty summer research fellowships, and a faculty symposium on physical science teaching. In this paper we criticize the various programs on the basis of our three years of experience with CAPE, indicating the activities that appear to have been successful and to he worthy of trial in other regions, and also indicating certain activities that were less successful than we had originally hoped. We attempt to give reasons for the latter disappointments.