AN INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE SHELL FOR EXPERIMENT SIMULATION IN SCIENCE EDUCATION

Award Information

Agency: National Science Foundation

Branch: N/A

Contract: N/A

Agency Tracking Number: 17396

Amount: $50,000.00

Phase: Phase I

Program: SBIR

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Timeline

Solicitation Year: N/A

Award Year: 1992

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Small Business Information

QUANTUM RESEARCH SERVICES

Alston Technical Park 100 Capitala Dr Suite 109

Durham, NC 27713

United States

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HUBZone Owned: No

Woman Owned: No

Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No

Principal Investigator

Name: A.m. Yacout
Title: Vice President
Phone: (919) 544-4952

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Abstract

WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP THE RUDIMENTS, IN PHASE I, OF A SOFTWARE SHELL THAT WILL ALLOW TEACHERS AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION TO CONSTRUCT SPECIFIC SCIENTIFIC "EXPERIMENTS" ON PERSONAL COMPUTERS. THE SHELL WILL INCORPORATE A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, ALREADY DEVELOPED IN PREVIOUS WORK, GRAPHICS FILES, AND OTHER STORAGE AND PRESENTATION UTILITIES IN A WAY THAT DRAMATICALLY STREAMLINES THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING SPECIFIC PROGRAMS ON SCIENTIFIC TOPICS. THE RESULTING PROGRAMS OR EXPERIMENTS WILL, BY VIRTUE OF THE BUILT-IN UTILITIES AND SIMULATION PACKAGES, PROVIDE LIVELY INTERACTIVE PROGRAMS THAT STUDENTS CAN USE TO EXPLORE SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS IN A NON-THREATENING, SELF-PACED MANNER. THE SHELL WE WILL DEVELOP WILL SERVE AS A SOFTWARE TOOL THAT CAN BE MADE BROADLY AVAILABLE, MUCH AS EXPERT LANGUAGE SHELLS ARE NOW WIDELY USED TO CONSTRUCT USER-SPECIFIC PROGRAMS. WE WILL WORK WITH THE NORTH CAROLINA SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ALLIANCE TO IDENTIFY TEACHERS WHO WILL HELP US DESIGN AND EVALUATE THE SYSTEM.

* Information listed above is at the time of submission. *

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AN INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE SHELL FOR EXPERIMENT SIMULATION IN SCIENCE EDUCATION