Identifying, measuring, and teaching physics expertise

American Physical Society Northwestern Section Annual Meeting (APS-NW) (11th : 2009)

Identifying, measuring, and teaching physics expertise Wieman, Carl

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Our goal in physics courses is to teach students to think about and solve physics problems like a physicist. But what does that really mean? I will discuss research on identifying those unique components of how a physicist thinks that distinguish their thinking from that of mere mortals. I will also discuss how these particular components of thinking can be better measured and taught. Audio begins at minute 09:10

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Title	Identifying, measuring, and teaching physics expertise
Creator	Wieman, Carl
Contributor	University of British Columbia. Department of Physics and Astronomy; American Physical Society. Northwestern Section. Meeting
Date Issued	2009-05-15
Description	Our goal in physics courses is to teach students to think about and solve physics problems like a physicist. But what does that really mean? I will discuss research on identifying those unique components of how a physicist thinks that distinguish their thinking from that of mere mortals. I will also discuss how these particular components of thinking can be better measured and taught. Audio begins at minute 09:10
Extent	110639278 bytes; 662033 bytes
Genre	Presentation
Type	Sound; Text
File Format	application/vnd.ms-powerpoint; application/octet-stream
Language	eng
Date Available	2009-05-28
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0041687
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/8339
Affiliation	Science, Faculty of; Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Citation	Wieman, Carl. 2009. Identifying, measuring, and teaching physics expertise. 11th Annual Meeting Northwest Section of the American Physical Society. May 15, 2009. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia Canada.
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Copyright Holder	Wieman, Carl
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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