Welcome to PER-Central
Welcome to PER-Central, a collection of information and resources for
physics education research. Here you will find articles, theses and
dissertations, research groups, curricular material, and news and
events that are of interest to the PER Community. Click here to find
out more about PER-Central.
Upcoming PER Events
The second FFPERPS (Foundations and Frontiers of Physics Education Research: Puget Sound) conference will be held June 21-24, 2012, at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center in Diablo, WA.
The conference provides a forum for examining and articulating the current state of the PER field, exploring future directions, and discussing ways to pursue promising avenues of research. The structure of the conference, based on that of the FFPER conference held in Bar Harbor, Maine, includes plenary talks, targeted sessions, contributed poster sessions, and substantial free time for informal interactions.
The theme of PERC 2012 is Cultural perspectives on learners' performance & identity in physics. The conference will be held August 1-2, 2012 in Philadelphia, PA following the Summer AAPT meeting.
Reviews in Physics Education Research
Over the past two decades, the PER community has developed a number of effective instructional strategies for calculus-based university physics classes.
This review article helps to bring a set of those results to the instructional community:
Matter & Interactions
by R. Chabay and B. Sherwood.
Find more articles that help to bridge research and practice in Volume 1 of Reviews in PER.
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