Alignment of TAs' Beliefs with Practice and Student Perception

Chini, Jacquelyn J.; Al-Rawi, Ahlam

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Alignment of TAs' Beliefs with Practice and Student Perception

written by Jacquelyn J. Chini and Ahlam Al-Rawi

Graduate teaching assistants (TAs) play an important role in introductory physics courses, particularly in large enrollment courses where the TA may be viewed as more approachable and accessible than the lecture instructor. Thus, while TAs may still be in the process of developing their views on teaching physics, their practices directly influence a large number of introductory students. As the first steps in reforming our introductory courses and TA training program, we collected multiple types of data on TAs teaching in traditional algebra-based physics laboratories. Drawing on prior work on TAs' pedagogical knowledge, we explore how the beliefs expressed by TAs in interviews align with their practices during a laboratory video-taped mid-semester. Additionally, we explore how both the TAs' expressed beliefs and practices align with students' responses to an end-of-semester TA evaluation survey.

Physics Education Research Conference 2012
Part of the PER Conference series
Philadelphia, PA: August 1-2, 2012
Volume 1513, Pages 98-101

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Published: January 24, 2013

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Education - Applied Research - Teacher Preparation = Early Teaching Experiences Education - Basic Research - Behavior - Sample Population = Instructor: TA - Student Characteristics = Affect	- Graduate/Professional	- Reference Material = Research study

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Restriction:: © 2012 American Institute of Physics
DOI:: 10.1063/1.4789661
PACSs:: 01.40.Fk; 01.40.jh
Keywords:: PERC 2012, TA pedagogical knowledge, TA training, graduate teaching assistants
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created March 16, 2013 by Zachary Davis
Record Updated:: December 17, 2013 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: January 24, 2013

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<a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=12670">Chini, Jacquelyn, and Ahlam Al-Rawi. "Alignment of TAs' Beliefs with Practice and Student Perception." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, August 1-2, 2012.</a>

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Chini, Jacquelyn, and Ahlam Al-Rawi. "Alignment of TAs' Beliefs with Practice and Student Perception." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, August 1-2, 2012. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12670&DocID=3247 (accessed 4 October 2024).

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