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
<a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=5276">Pollock, Steven, and Noah Finkelstein. "Sustaining Change: Instructor Effects in Transformed Large Lecture Courses." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2006, Syracuse, New York, July 26-27, 2006.</a>
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S. Pollock and N. Finkelstein, Sustaining Change: Instructor Effects in Transformed Large Lecture Courses, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2006, Syracuse, New York, 2006, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=5276&DocID=2128>.
Pollock, S., & Finkelstein, N. (2006, July 26-27). Sustaining Change: Instructor Effects in Transformed Large Lecture Courses. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2006, Syracuse, New York. Retrieved June 1, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=5276&DocID=2128
Pollock, Steven, and Noah Finkelstein. "Sustaining Change: Instructor Effects in Transformed Large Lecture Courses." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2006, Syracuse, New York, July 26-27, 2006. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=5276&DocID=2128 (accessed 1 June 2025).
Pollock, Steven, and Noah Finkelstein. "Sustaining Change: Instructor Effects in Transformed Large Lecture Courses." Physics Education Research Conference 2006. Syracuse, New York: 2006. 109-112 Vol. 883 of PER Conference. 1 June 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=5276&DocID=2128>.
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