Session: |
PER Cognitive Issues
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Meeting: |
122nd AAPT National Meeting:
San Diego, CA |
Location: |
Pacific Salons Four & Five |
Date: |
Jan. 9 |
Time: |
4:30 p.m. |
Author: |
Kirsten Hogg, Kansas State
Univ.
785-532-1824,
khogg@phys.ksu.edu |
Co-Author(s): |
Dean Zollman, Michael O'Shea
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Abstract:
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The physics education
community has invested considerable time and effort into improving
preservice teacher training over the past 15 years. At Kansas State
University we attempt to prepare elementary teachers through a learning
cycle course, Concepts of Physics1. The course is strongly
activity-based, and the students work through a series of explorations
and applications to build an understanding of mechanics, energy, and
electricity and magnetism. During the past two years we have been
evaluating elementary education students' attitudes toward learning and
teaching physics. This talk reports on the rather complex perceptions
and attitudes students have about their own learning processes, how
their knowledge informs and influences their teaching, and their
expectations for children's learning of physics. Additional information
is available at http://www.phys.ksu.edu/perg. |
Footnotes:
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*Supported by NSF grant
#CETP-98-76676.
1. Dean Zollman, Phys. Teach. 28, 20–25 (1990). Dean
Zollman, Physics Education 29, 271–275 (1994).
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