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Session:
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Paper Type:
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Invited
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Title:
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A Graduate Course in Physics Education Research at the University of Maine
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Meeting:
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128th AAPT National Meeting: Miami Beach, FL |
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Location:
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Le Jardin |
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Date:
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Tuesday, Jan. 27 |
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Time:
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8:00AM
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Author:
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John R. Thompson, Univ. of Maine
207-581-1030, thompsonj@maine.edu
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Co-Author(s):
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None
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Abstract:
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The University of Maine has instituted a Masters of Science in Teaching (MST) program through its interdisciplinary Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research. The MST aims to strengthen content understanding and to steep the participants in the methods and results of discipline-based education research. This program is designed to benefit science and science education graduate students as well as high school science teachers. One of the courses offered through this program is a two-semester graduate-level course in Physics Education Research. In addition to an overview of the course, I describe the results of research on graduate students' and teachers' understanding of both content and pedagogy. I also present evidence that students in this course can anticipate student responses indicative of common difficulties and can acquire a critical eye for assessment.
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Footnotes:
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None
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