University of Maryland Physics Education Research Group
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Resources on the web
This page links to dissertations, papers, and talks from the UMd PERG that are available on the web. The papers and talks are organized in a variety of ways including
- PhD Dissertations:
Many of the dissertations done in the Maryland PERG are available for downloading.
- Papers and Talks Organized by Research Topic:
- General PER: Papers and talks in this section give an overview, discuss the
motivation and results of PER, and give annotated bibliographies for the research literature.
- Student Difficulty Research: Papers and talks in this section
discuss student difficulties with particular physics content.
- Testing and Evaluation Research: Papers and talks in this section
consider issues in testing and evaluation.
- Instructional Methods: Papers and talks in this section
describe and evaluate instructional methods.
- Expectation and Epistemology: Papers and talks in this section consider
metacognitive issues in education including student expectations and epistemologies.
- Cognitive Research: Papers and talks in this section consider
fundamental cognitive issues relevant to education including student resources and knowledge organization.
- Papers and Talks Organized by Physics Content
- Papers and Talks Organized by date
- Papers and Talks Organized by Authors (To find papers by a particular individual who has been at Maryland but whose paper may not be on our site, find them on our "people" page and check their homepage. If they are no longer at Maryland, check our "alumni" page.)
