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| Abstract Title: | A case of resources-oriented instruction in calculus-based introductory physics |
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| Abstract: | Many research-based instructional materials in physics have been informed by investigations of common student difficulties – thinking that is inconsistent with canonical understandings. Our research team is beginning to develop instructional materials that elicit and build on common conceptual resources – ideas that may be continuous with formal physics. These materials are unique in their open-endedness and emphasis on building from students' thinking, in contrast with other research-based materials that aim to address specific difficulties or scaffold toward well-specified conceptual understandings. We expect that resources-oriented materials like ours place different demands on instructors, and that the instructional practices that are effective in this context may differ from other research-based approaches. In this paper, we use classroom video from preliminary resource-oriented instructional materials on pulse propagation to analyze a case of resources-oriented instruction in introductory physics, to explore what knowledge, skills, and/or dispositions may support instructors in implementing this kind of instruction. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session III |
| Poster Number: | 3.J3 |
| Contributed Paper Record: | Contributed Paper Information |
| Contributed Paper Download: | Download Contributed Paper |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Lisa Goodhew University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 Phone: 3035878579 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Amy D. Robertson Paula R.L. Heron |
