Physics Education Research Conference 2000: Teacher Education
University of Guelph, August 2-3, 2000

In tandem with the 2000 summer meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers.

Planning Committee: Richard N. Steinberg (Chair), City College of New York
Robert Beichner, Constantinos P. Constantinou, David Hammer, Seth Rosenberg

Participants must register for the AAPT meeting. The registration cost is an additional $50.

Please scroll down to see links to complete papers. Click here to see presentation abstracts.

Agenda

Wednesday, August 2

Afternoon - AAPT meeting invited session and panel discussion
PER: Teacher education

Preparing teachers as diagnosticians
David Hammer, University of Maryland

Preparing teachers to teach science by inquiry: Insights from research
Peter Shaffer, University of Washington

Reflections on long-term professional development of physics teachers in Israel
Bat-Sheva Eylon, Weizmann Institute of Science

How can the computer facilitate the development of physics knowledge among prospective elementary teachers?
Fred Goldberg, San Diego State University

7:00PM - 9:00PM - Reception/PER contributed poster session

Organizer: Seth Rosenberg, The Ohio State University
Physics education research talks from the general AAPT meeting will be displayed in poster format.

Thursday, August 3

8:00AM - 8:15AM - Welcome and overview

Richard N. Steinberg, City College of New York

8:15AM - 10:15AM - Invited session and panel discussion
Perspectives of pre-college teachers

Action research on underpinnings for physics
Jeff Hengesbach, Mountain Pointe High School, Arizona
David Hestenes, Arizona State University

Research and the high school classroom: Confessions of a PER junkie
Robert Morse, St Albans School, Washington, DC

Crossing the gap from research on preconceptions to standards-based practice
Jim Minstrell, Pam Kraus, and the Physics Teachers' Network, Seattle, WA

10:15AM - 10:30AM - Break

10:30AM - 12:30PM - Invited poster breakout sessions

Four parallel sessions:

Elementary/Middle School Education Moderator: Jerold Touger Room A 10:30 - 11:30 posters 11:30 - 12:30 discussion Learning about static electricity and magnetism in a fourth grade classroom Dave Henry, Buffalo State College Attitudes of future teachers to teaching and learning Kirsten Hogg, Kansas State University Characterizing the development of scientific meanings by preservice teachers in a guided inquiry physics course Andy Johnson, Black Hills State University Physics by Inquiry Lillian C. McDeromott and the Physics Education Group at the University of Washington A perspective on teaching physics courses for future elementary-school teachers David E. Meltzer, Iowa State University Learning by inquiry in a physical science course for prospective elementary teachers: What do the students think? Roger Nanes and Vincent Smith, California State University, Fullerton Factors affecting students' small-group discussion of force and motion in a middle school physical science course Cody Sandifer, Sad Diego State University What is "physics" for prospective primary school teachers? Manju D. Sharma, R. Millar and K. Wilson, The University of Sydney

High School Education Moderator: David Maloney Room B 10:30 - 11:30 posters 11:30 - 12:30 discussion How should teacher training incorporate research about students prior conceptions? Andy Elby, University of Maryland, College Park Bridging studies of physics and education Noah Finkelstein, University of California, San Diego The need for improved physics education of teachers: FCI pretest scores of graduates of high school physics courses Richard R. Hake, Indiana University The effectiveness of guided inquiry for the teaching of heat and temperature at the high-school level Michael Jabot, Oneida High School; Christian Kautz, Syracuse University Modeling Instruction works for ALL high school physics teachers Jane Jackson, Arizona State University Assessing to Learn (A2L): Researching the role of formative assessment in high school physics Jose Mestre, William Gerace, Robert Dufresne, and William Leonard University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Instructional Technology Moderator: Edward F. Redish Room C 10:30 - 11:30 posters 11:30 - 12:30 discussion Educating pre-service physics teachers at Högskolan Dalarna in Sweden Jonte Bernhard, Linköping University Designing professional development for a facet-based learning environment Pamela Kraus and Jim Minstrell, Talaria Inc. Computer simulations in teaching motion in two dimensions: Long term action research in a high school classroom. part 2 Robert A. Morse, St. Albans School Video classroom data: Results, methodology, and video analysis tools Valerie K. Otero, San Diego State University Student-oriented science: Enabling teachers Ronald Thornton, Tufts University

Assessment Moderator: Robert Beichner Room D 10:30 - 11:30 posters 11:30 - 12:30 discussion Developing an energy concept inventory Dwain Desbien, Arizona State University Assessments as diagnostics instead of as exams Dewey I. Dykstra, Jr., Boise State University The "0.7 Barrier" on the FCI -- a suggestion of the underlying problem and a proposal for further research Jerome Epstein, Polytechnic University Assessment with the Force Concept Inventory David Hestenes, Arizona State University Connecting research in physics education with teacher education E. Leonard Jossem , The Ohio State University Is It Finally Time for a Physics Counterpart of the Benezet/Berman Math Experiment of the 1930's? Sanjoy Mahajan, University of Cambridge and Richard R. Hake, Indiana University Investigating the impact in the classroom of an inquiry-oriented summer course for teachers Graham E. Oberem, Paul G. Jasien, and Betsy R. Strick, California State University, San Marcos Rethinking assessment in light of constructivist learning approaches J. van Aalst, Simon Fraser University

12:30PM - 1:30PM - Lunch

1:30PM - 2:00PM - Discussion / question and answer session

A view from the NSF
Duncan McBride, National Science Foundation

2:00PM - 3:00PM - Poster session summary and discussion

Elementary/middle school education
Jerold Touger, Curry College

High school education
David Maloney, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

Instructional technology
Edward F. Redish, University of Maryland

Assessment
Robert Beichner, North Carolina State University

3:00PM - Final comments, conference ends

Pages prepared by Richard N. Steinberg

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