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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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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
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110639278 bytes; 662033 bytes
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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
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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.
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Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Copyright Holder
Wieman, Carl
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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