Building a Science of Teaching
Building a community consensus
Why
do disciplinary scholars
need to study education?
Why
begin with
cognitive psychology?
A
Better Model
from Cognitive Science
A
model of thinking
relevant to instruction: Principles
Physical reasoning maps primitive elements onto specific situations
Which
picture has more information?
Which is easier to interpret?
"You are acting as bouncer..."
A small problem: What is 3 ½ divided by ¼?
Student
responses
depend on context*
Organization of Long-Term Memory: Schemas
Interview Response of 2 “Grad Students”
Some research-based instructional environments in physics
Evaluating
Concept Learning:
The Force Concept Inventory (FCI)*
Can research-based instructional models produce better conceptual gains?
Tutorials produced significantly higher gains than recitations
Interactive environments are not enough.
Building
a community consensus
of education
Building
a community consensus
of education
The
research effort in university level PER has grown substantially
over the past decade.