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Sustaining Change: Instructor Effects in Transformed Large Lecture Courses
written by Steven J. Pollock and Noah D. Finkelstein
We investigate the transfer of classroom reforms from PER faculty to more traditional physics-research faculty. This study is part of an ongoing effort to assess necessary and sufficient requirements for success with research-based course transformations. We have previously demonstrated the ability of PER faculty to replicate the success that other researchers achieve when implementing research-based reforms in large, introductory calculus-based physics courses. Here, we present new data from four implementations of Physics II, including quantitative and qualitative measures of successful transfer of courses to new faculty: validated pre/post surveys covering content, assessments of student views about physics and learning physics, and informal affective surveys. We investigate questions of sustainability, reproducibility, and instructor effect through a contextual constructivist theoretical lens, and find that replication of research-based results is possible, but a variety of factors including instructor beliefs and institutional constraints play important roles.
Physics Education Research Conference 2006
Part of the PER Conference series
Syracuse, New York: July 26-27, 2006
Volume 883, Pages 109-112
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Education - Applied Research
- Curriculum Development
= Course
- Instructional Material Design
- Professional Development
General Physics
- Physics Education Research
= Reform Sustainability
- Lower Undergraduate
- Reference Material
= Research study
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https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2508704
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© 2006 American Institute of Physics
DOI:
10.1063/1.2508704
NSF Number:
0410744
PACSs:
01.40.Fk
01.40.Di
01.40.gb
Keywords:
Educational course design, PERC 2006, course sustainability, educational courses, teaching methods, teaching strategies
Record Creator:
Metadata instance created June 4, 2007 by Shawn Weatherford
Record Updated:
July 16, 2013 by Lyle Barbato
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January 30, 2007
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