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| Abstract Title: | Can your classroom be your laboratory? The thinning veil between scholarly teaching and research |
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| Abstract Type: | Custom Format |
| Abstract: | Scholarly teaching shares a key goal with research on learning: using evidence to understand how students are thinking and learning. Many physics instructors are interested in getting involved in research, but are unsure how to get started. Others are already engaged in PER, but for one reason or another are going "against the grain" in doing their research, whether they are struggling to build a community around research at a teaching-focused institution, or pursuing a research approach that is undervalued by their institution (qualitative/observational vs. quantitative/experimental). This session concentrates on conducting research in one's own classroom, capitalizing on the shared goal of scholarly teaching and research. It will highlight the rationale, the advantages, and some pitfalls to avoid. It will inspire discussion about and develop some practical know-how for conducting research on one's own students' reasoning and learning. The format will be a hybrid roundtable discussion from panelists along with a workshop-style small-group collaborative analysis of data from the panelists' own classrooms. Panelists will describe their own approach, and provide context for the data they will be workshopping. Participants will then break off into small groups to critically examine data artifacts from each of the panelists' classrooms (video or transcript of student discussions, written work etc.) They will see what questions arise and start to brainstorm how they might answer those questions with evidence. Panelists and participants will conclude with a synthesizing discussion. Participants will reflect on the prospects of implementing research in their own classrooms, highlighting what impediments (institutional; philosophical; epistemological) they see impacting them in their local context. Panelists will respond with ideas for navigating those impediments. |
| Session Time: | Parallel Sessions Cluster 2 |
| Room: | Marina 4 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Luke D. Conlin Salem State University Salem, MA 01970 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
David Hammer, Tufts University Paul Hutchison, Grinnell College |
Parallel Session Information | |
| Format Description: | The format will be a hybrid: roundtable discussion with panelists along with a workshop-style small-group collaborative analysis of data from the panelists' own classrooms. Panelists will provide instructional/research context for the data they will be workshopping. Participants will then break off into small groups to critically examine a data artifact from each of the panelists' classrooms (could be video or transcript of student discussions, or written work etc.) Panelists and participants will then conclude with a synthesizing discussion. |
