S. Robinson, V. Otero, and F. Goldberg; Publisher: American Association of Physics Teachers, Am. J. Phys., 78 (12), 13.
Although several successful inquiry-based physics and physical science curricula have been developed, little has been published that describes the development of these curricula in…
N. Finkelstein, W. Adams, C. Keller, K. Perkins, C. Wieman, and PhET, J. Online Learn. & Teaching, 2 (3), 12 (2006).
This paper introduces a suite of computer simulations from the Physics Education Technology (PhET) project, identifies features of these educational tools, and demonstrates their…
R. Chabay and B. Sherwood, Am. J. Phys., 74 (4), 329 - 336 (2006).
In the electricity and magnetism (E&M) segment of the traditional introductory calculus-based physics course, many new and increasingly abstract concepts, embodied in complex formal…
L. Ding, R. Chabay, and B. Sherwood, J. Res. Sci. Teaching, 50 (6), 722 - 747 (2013).
We investigated students' conceptual learning of energy topics in an innovative college-level introductory mechanics course, entitled Matter & Interactions (M&I) Modern Mechanics.…