Comparative Research On Three Sets Of PEP Version Teaching Materials

With the view of curriculum reforms, teaching materials have always been highlighted The development of teaching materials usually go hand in hand with social development, as a consequence, nowadays physics teaching materials shall find their own ways to go with new century. The physics teachers in the middle school shall have a better understanding of the concept of new curriculums if they learn to analyse the development of physics teaching materials in senior middle schools, which , to some degree, will help teacher with smooth implements and the popularities of new teaching materials.This paper, based on 3 sets of different versions by PEP, has employed literature analytic approach, statistic analytic approach, survey study and case analytic approach to focus on the research as follows:First, From the view of texts, the theoretical basis of 3 different versions have been compared. The 3 versions are "the Full-time Middle school Physics Program of instruction (Revised edition)" by the State Educational Committee in April, 1990, "the Full-time Ordinary Senior middle school Physics Program of instruction(Experimental Revised edition)" in March , 2000, "the Ordinary High school Physics Curriculum Standard(Experiment)",by the Ministry of Education in 2003.Second, from the contents, structures and styles, the paper compares the 3 different physics teaching materials guided by the above mentioned teaching syllabus or standard to find how the new course teaching materials denote the thoughts of new curriculum.Third, a survey has been conducted to the teachers in the new teaching material experimental plot in Jiangsu. The questionnaires involve the knowledge of new teaching materials, the cognition , the philosophy, the compiling and the feasibility, trying to have a general understanding of teachers' and students' views of new teaching materials.Finally, the writer , based on the comparisons and studies, presented her opinions and suggestions from her own teaching experience to the new teaching materials.