Research Catalog

Title

2006 Physics Education Research Conference : Syracuse, New York, 26-27 July 2006 / editors, Laura McCullough, Leon Hsu, Paula Heron.

Author

Physics Education Research Conference (2006 : Syracuse, N.Y.)

Publication

Melville, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McCullough, Laura L., 1954-
• Hsu, Leon.
• Heron, Paula.
• American Association of Physics Teachers.

Description

xxiii, 198 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.

Series Statement

AIP conference proceedings, 0094-243X ; v. 883

Uniform Title

AIP conference proceedings ; no. 883.

Alternative Title

Physics Education Research

Subject

Physics > Study and teaching > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Avoiding reflex responses : strategies for revealing students' conceptual understanding in biology / M. W. Klymkowsky, R. Gheen and K. Garvin-Doxas -- Is inquiry-based instruction good for elementary teaching majors? : the effects on chemistry content knowledge and views about teaching and learning science / M. J. Sanger -- Physics education research and human subjects : the PER community and institutional review boards / G. J. Aubrecht II -- Are they all created equal? : a comparison of different concept inventory development methodologies / R. S. Lindell, E. Peak and T. M. Foster -- Problem solving skill evaluation instrument - validation studies / W. K. Adams and C. E. Wieman -- Physics education research in an engineering context / C. H. Kautz -- The cognitive blending of mathematics and physics knowledge / T. J. Bing and E. F. Redish -- Probing student reasoning and intuitions in intermediate mechanics : an example with linear oscillations / B. S. Ambrose -- Reforming a large lecture modern physics course for engineering majors using a PER-based design / S. B. McKagan, K. K. Perkins and C. E. Wieman -- Investigation of student learning in thermodynamics and implications for instruction in chemistry and engineering / D. E. Meltzer -- Helping students learn quantum mechanics for quantum computing / C. Singh -- Enabling informed adaptation of reformed instructional materials / R. E. Scherr and A. Elby -- Chemistry vs. physics : a comparison of how biology majors view each discipline / K. K. Perkins, J. Barbera, W. K. Adams and C. E. Wieman -- Writing in an introductory physics lab : correlating English quality with physics content / D. Demaree, C. Gubernatis, J. Hanzlik, S. Franklin, L. Hermsen and G. Aubrecht -- The effectiveness of incorporating conceptual writing assignments into physics instruction / K. Cummings and M. Murphy -- Characterizing the epistemological development of physics majors / E. Gire, E. Price and B. Jones -- Modeling aspects of nature of science to preservice elementary teachers / P. Ashcraft -- Beyond concepts : transfer from inquiry-based physics to elementary classrooms / D. B. Harlow and V. K. Otero -- Learning and dynamic transfer using the 'constructing physics understanding' (CPU) curriculum : a case study / C. B. Mamolo and N. S. Rebello -- Studying transfer of scientific reasoning abilities / E. Etkina, A. Karelina and M. R. Villasenor -- Resource plasticity : detailing a common chain of reasoning with damped harmonic motion / E. C. Sayre, M. C. Wittmann, J. E. Donovan and Ii -- Depictive gestures as evidence for dynamic mental imagery in four types of student reasoning / A. L. Stephens and J. J. Clement -- When and how do students engage in sense-making in a physics lab? / A. Karelina and E. Etkina -- Reframing analogy : framing as a mechanism of analogy use / N. S. Podolefsky and N. D. Finkelstein -- What factors really influence shifts in students' attitudes and expectations in an introductory physics course? / J. Marx and K. Cummings -- Reformed physics instruction through the eyes of students / M. R. Villasenor and E. Etkina -- Sustaining change : instructor effects in transformed large lecture courses / S. J. Pollock and N. D. Finkelstein -- Adaptation and implementation of a radically reformed introductory physics course for biological science majors : assessing success and prospects for future implementation / C. De Leone, R. Marion and C. Ishikawa -- Diffusion of educational innovations via co-teaching / C. Henderson, A. Beach and M. Famiano -- Assessing the effectiveness of a computer simulation in introductory undergraduate environments / C. J. Keller, N. D. Finkelstein, K. K. Perkins and S. J. Pollock -- Characterization of instructor and student use of ubiquitous presenter, a presentation system enabling spontaneity and digital archiving / E. Price, R. Malani and B. Simon -- Impact of a classroom interaction system on student learning / J. Beuckman, N. S. Rebello and D. Zollman Reliability -- Compliance and security of Web-based pre/post-testing / S. Bonham -- Investigation and evaluation of a physics tutorial center / K. N. Walker and M. H. Dancy -- Cultivating problem solving skills via a new problem categorization scheme / K. A. Harper, R. J. Freuler and J. T. Demel -- Comparing explicit and implicit teaching of multiple representation use in physics problem solving / P. B. Kohl, D. Rosengrant and N. Finkelstein -- An overview of recent research on multiple representations / D. Rosengrant, E. Etkina and A. Van Heuvelen -- Same to us, different to them : numeric computation versus symbolic representation / E. Torigoe and G. Gladding -- Student (mis)application of partial differentiation to material properties / B. R. Bucy, J. R. Thompson and D. B. Mountcastle -- Comparison of teaching methods for energy conservation / M. L. Horner, M. Jeng and R. Lindell -- Addressing students' difficulties in understanding two different expressions of gravitational potential energy (I) : mgh & -GMm/r / G. Lee and J. Yi -- Strategy levels for guiding discussion to promote explanatory model construction in circuit electricity / E. G. Williams and J. J. Clement -- Students' use of symmetry with Gauss' law / A. L. Traxler, K. E. Black and J. R. Thompson -- Analysis of shifts in students' reasoning regarding electric field and potential concepts / D. E. Meltzer -- Improving student understanding of Coulomb's law and Gauss's law / Z. Isvan and C. Singh -- Student difficulties with quantum mechanics formalism / C. Singh -- Use of physical models to facilitate transfer of physics learning to understand positron emission tomography / B. Aryal, D. Zollman and N. S. Rebello -- Investigating students' ideas about x-rays while developing teaching materials for a medical physics course / S. Kalita and D. Zollman.

ISBN

• 9780735403833
• 073540383X

OCLC

• ocn122378490
• 122378490
• SCSB-5329802

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries