Changing classroom designs: Easy; Changing instructors' pedagogies: Not so easy...
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Nathaniel Lasry, Elizabeth Charles, Chris Whittaker, Helena Dedic, and Steven Rosenfield
Technology-rich student-centered classrooms such as SCALE-UP and TEAL are designed to actively engage students. We examine what happens when instructors adopt the classroom but not the pedagogy that goes with it. We measure the effect of using socio-technological spaces on students' conceptual change and compare learning gains made in groups using different pedagogies (active learning vs. conventional instruction). We also correlate instructors' self-reported instructional approach (teacher-centered, student-centered) with their classes' normalized FCI gains. We find that technology-rich spaces are only effective when implemented with studentcentered active pedagogies. In their absence, the technology-rich classroom is not significantly different from conventional teacher-centered classrooms. We also find that instructors' self-reported perception of studentcenteredness accounts for a large fraction of the variance (r2=0.83) in their class' average normalized gain. Adopting student-centered pedagogies appears to be a necessary condition for the effective use of technology-rich spaces. However, adopting a new pedagogy seems more difficult than adopting new technology.
Physics Education Research Conference 2012
Part of the PER Conference series
Philadelphia, PA: August 1-2, 2012
Volume 1513, Pages 238-241
<a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=12822">Lasry, N, E. Charles, C. Whittaker, H. Dedic, and S. Rosenfield. "Changing classroom designs: Easy; Changing instructors' pedagogies: Not so easy...." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, August 1-2, 2012.</a>
N. Lasry, E. Charles, C. Whittaker, H. Dedic, and S. Rosenfield, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, 2012, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12822&DocID=3355).
N. Lasry, E. Charles, C. Whittaker, H. Dedic, and S. Rosenfield, Changing classroom designs: Easy; Changing instructors' pedagogies: Not so easy..., presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, 2012, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12822&DocID=3355>.
Lasry, N., Charles, E., Whittaker, C., Dedic, H., & Rosenfield, S. (2012, August 1-2). Changing classroom designs: Easy; Changing instructors' pedagogies: Not so easy.... Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA. Retrieved May 7, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12822&DocID=3355
Lasry, N, E. Charles, C. Whittaker, H. Dedic, and S. Rosenfield. "Changing classroom designs: Easy; Changing instructors' pedagogies: Not so easy...." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, August 1-2, 2012. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12822&DocID=3355 (accessed 7 May 2025).
Lasry, Nathaniel, Elizabeth Charles, Chris Whittaker, Helena Dedic, and Steven Rosenfield. "Changing classroom designs: Easy; Changing instructors' pedagogies: Not so easy...." Physics Education Research Conference 2012. Philadelphia, PA: 2012. 238-241 Vol. 1513 of PER Conference. 7 May 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12822&DocID=3355>.
@inproceedings{
Author = "Nathaniel Lasry and Elizabeth Charles and Chris Whittaker and Helena Dedic and Steven Rosenfield",
Title = {Changing classroom designs: Easy; Changing instructors' pedagogies: Not so easy...},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2012},
Pages = {238-241},
Address = {Philadelphia, PA},
Series = {PER Conference},
Volume = {1513},
Month = {August 1-2},
Year = {2012}
}
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