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| Abstract Title: | User-centered personas for PhysPort |
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| Abstract: | PhysPort is a professional development website for physics faculty to develop their teaching through research-based resources. As part of PhysPort's ongoing research and development efforts, we conducted interviews with 23 physics faculty drawn from diverse instructional and institutional contexts in the US. From our interviews, we sought common experiences, motivations, and pain points to develop personas -- person-like constructs -- of physics faculty in the US. Our research focuses on the perspectives of the key users of our site, and thus we take a faculty-centered perspective rather than a researcher-centered perspective. In this poster, we present our set of physics faculty personas: a faculty member who is new to improving his teaching; one who takes up her department's practices; one who wants his teaching to feel good; one who is comfortable in her teaching; one who is continuously improving; and one who solves big problems in her department. Notably, the stereotype of a "traditional" faculty member who is hostile to student-centered teaching was not supported by our data. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session II |
| Poster Number: | B94 |
| Contributed Paper Record: | Contributed Paper Information |
| Contributed Paper Download: | Download Contributed Paper |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Adrian M. Madsen American Association of Physics Teachers 1100 Chokecherry Lane Longmont, CO 80503 Phone: 9703104276 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Eleanor C. Sayre, Sarah B. McKagan, Linda E. Strubbe |
