University of Maryland Physics Education Research Group

Enrico Fermi Summer School on Physics Education Research

Information about the School

• Sponsor: The Enrico Fermi Summer Schools are sponsored by the Italian Physical Society
• Location: The School will be held at Varenna on Lake Como, Italy.
• Dates: July 15-25, 2003.
• Conference Organizers: Matilde Vicentini (University of Rome) and Edward F. Redish (University of Maryland)
• Webpages at the Italian Physical Society concerning the conference
  • Description of the site
  • Official program
  • Schedule

Attendees

• Students: As defined by the Italian Physical Society, students are any researchers in the field under the age of 35. Attendance will be limited to approximately 60 students.
• Observers: A few older researchers are permitted to attend the school as observers. This number is likely to be between 10 and 30.
• Lecturers: Lecturers deliver the main content of the school and are expected to remain at the school for the entire period.
• Seminar Speakers: Seminar speakers deliver additional content of interest and are expected to remain at the school for three days.

Program

• Topic: Connecting Research to Teaching and Learning
• Schedule: Sessions are held from 9-12:30 AM and from 5-7 PM.
  (Afternoons are left open for discussion, poster sessions, and student presentations.)
• Lecturers (2-3 hours): Click the highlighted names for abstracts.
  • Paul Black (University College, London): Assessment and Testing
  • Andrea diSessa (University of California, Berkeley): Models, concepts, theories: How do we think about Student Ideas?
  • Manfred Euler (University of Kiel):
  • Paulo Guidoni (University of Rome): Rethinking physics for teaching: Research, problems, and hints
  • David Hammer (University of Maryland): Student resources for tangibility and coherence
  • Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond (University of Nice): From Epistemology to Pedagogy -- back and forth
  • Jose Mestre (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): The dependence of knowledge deployment on context among physics novices
  • Valerie Otero (University of Colorado): Cognitive processes and the history of physics: The evolution of knowledge and/or the definition of learning
  • Roser Pinto (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain):
  • Edward Redish (University of Maryland) Introduction and overview of cognitive models
  • Matilde Vicentini (University of Rome) Summary and conclusion
  • Laurence Viennot (University of Paris 7): Links between common ways of reasoning, content analysis and research on teaching sequences
• Seminar Speakers (1 hour)
  • Hendrik Ferdinande (University of Ghent): University Physics Education in Europe: the activities of the EUPEN Network and 'TUNING - phase I & II
  • Nella Grimellini (University of Bologna)
  • Jürgen Sahm (University of Berlin)
  • Ron Thornton (Tufts University): Uncommon Knowledge: Student Behavior Correlated to Conceptual Learning
  • Gunnar Tibell (Uppsala University)

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Comments and questions may be directed to E. F. Redish
Last modified June 19, 2003