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Transforming Teacher Knowledge: Modeling Instruction in Physics 
  
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Main Level:
Professional Development
Subjects:
Education Practices / Active Learning / Modeling
General Physics / Physics Education Research
Education Foundations / Teacher Characteristics / Content Knowledge
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N. Cabot - Thesis
Publication Date: August 8, 2008
The Modeling physics curriculum is readily accommodated by most teachers in favor of traditional didactic pedagogies. This is so, at least in part, because Modeling focuses on a…
http://modeling.asu.edu/thesis/TransformingTchrKnowledge08.pdf
Examining the development of knowledge for teaching a novel introductory physics curriculum 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Education Foundations / Teacher Characteristics / Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Education Foundations / Cognition
Education Foundations / Teacher Characteristics
Education Foundations / Teacher Characteristics / Content Knowledge
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E. Seung - Thesis
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
This study investigated how graduate physics teaching assistants (TAs) develop professional knowledge for teaching the undergraduate introductory physics curriculum, Matter and…
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?FMT=7&DID=1456295691&RQT=309
Development of a problem solving evaluation instrument; Untangling of specific problem solving skills 
  
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Graduate/Professional
Subjects:
Education Practices / Active Learning / Problem Solving
General Physics / Physics Education Research
Education Foundations / Assessment / Instruments
Education Foundations / Research Design & Methodology / Validity
Education Foundations / Student Characteristics / Affect
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W. Adams - Thesis
Publication Date: January 12, 2008
The purpose of this research was to produce a problem solving evaluation tool for physics. To do this it was necessary to gain a thorough understanding of how students solve…
http://spot.colorado.edu/~wkadams/
Analogical Scaffolding: Making Meaning in Physics through Representation and Analogy 
  
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Education Practices / Pedagogy / Analogies
Education Foundations / Communication / Representations
Education Foundations / Learning Theory
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N. Podolefsky - Thesis
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
This work reviews the literature on analogy, introduces a new model of analogy, and presents a series of experiments that test and confirm the utility of this model to describe and…
http://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8784&DocID=1145
Designing an Energy Assessment to Evaluate Student Understanding of Energy Topics 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Education Foundations / Assessment / Instruments
General Physics / Physics Education Research
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L. Ding - Thesis
Publication Date: May 14, 2007
The well-established approaches to energy in traditional introductory mechanics courses are often oversimplified or even erroneous. Unlike the traditional courses, Matter &…
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06032007-181559/
Analogies as Categorization Phenomena: Studies from Scientific Discourse 
  
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Education Foundations / Cognition
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L. Atkins - Thesis
Publication Date: November 29, 2006
Studies on the role of analogies in science classrooms have tended to focus on analogies that come from the teacher or curriculum, and not the analogies that students generate. Such…
http://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4726&DocID=186
The Role of Language in Learning Physics 
  
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Education Foundations / Communication / Language
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D. Brookes - Thesis
Publication Date: October 1, 2006
Many studies in PER suggest that language poses a serious difficulty for students learning physics. These difficulties are mostly attributed to misunderstanding of specialized…
http://research.physics.illinois.edu/PER/David/thesis_Y2.pdf
Assessing College Students' Retention and Transfer From Calculus to Physics 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Education Foundations / Student Characteristics
General Physics / Mathematical Tools / Calculus
Other Sciences / Mathematics
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L. Cui - Thesis
Publication Date: January 1, 2006
Many introductory calculus-based physics students have difficulties when solving physics problems involving calculus. This study investigates students’ retention and transfer from…
http://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4769&DocID=209
A Study of Social Interaction and Teamwork in Reformed Physics Laboratories 
  
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Education Practices / Active Learning / Cooperative Learning
Education Foundations / Behavior / Social Interaction
Education Foundations / Student Characteristics / Ability
Education Practices / Curriculum Development / Laboratory
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P. Gresser - Thesis
Publication Date: January 1, 2005
For many students, learning can be accomplished most effectively through social interaction with peers, and there have been many successes in using a group environment to improve…
http://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4767&DocID=207
High school students' conceptual coherence of qualitative knowledge in the case of the force concept 
  
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High School
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Education Foundations / Assessment / Instruments
Education Foundations / Communication / Representations
Education Foundations / Learning Theory
Education Foundations / Research Design & Methodology
Education Foundations / Student Characteristics / Ability
Education Foundations / Sample Population
Education Foundations / Sample Population / Background: English as a Second Language
Education Practices / Pedagogy / Instructional Issues
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A. Savinainen - Thesis
Publication Date: August 13, 2004
The notion of students’ conceptual coherence is introduced in this thesis to clarify what is meant by conceptual understanding. Students’ conceptual coherence is divided into three…
http://epublications.uef.fi/pub/urn_isbn_952-458-509-X/urn_isbn_952-458-...
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