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Documenting and Interpreting Ways to Engage Students in ‘Thinking Like a Physicist’
written by Emily H. van Zee and Corinne A. Manogue
The Paradigms in Physics Program at Oregon State University has adapted a variety of interactive pedagogies to engage students in 'thinking like a physicist.' Video recordings of class sessions document what the students and
instructor say and do. This paper discusses development of narrative interpretations of such videos. Examples are drawn from two detailed narratives of activities during which the main ideas emerged during the wrap-up discussions rather than during the tasks that the students had been doing in their small groups. The goal of these 'compare and contrast' wrap-up discussions was to help the students envision connections among geometric and algebraic representations of the mathematics they would be using during the coming weeks of instruction in quantum mechanics. The purpose of the narratives is to provide examples of wrap-up discussions with commentary about ways in which the instructor was choosing to guide this process.
Physics Education Research Conference 2010
Part of the PER Conference Invited Paper series
Portland, Oregon: July 21-22, 2010
Volume 1289, Pages 61-64
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DOI:
10.1063/1.3515249
NSF Numbers:
0231032
0231194
0618877
PACSs:
01.40.Fk
01.40.gb
Keywords:
PERC 2010, algebraic reasoning, compare and contrast discussions, discourse, geometric reasoning, narrative interpretations, narratives, thinking like a physicist
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E. van Zee and C. Manogue, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, 2010, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10387&DocID=1859).
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E. van Zee and C. Manogue, Documenting and Interpreting Ways to Engage Students in ‘Thinking Like a Physicist’, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, 2010, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10387&DocID=1859>.
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van Zee, E., & Manogue, C. (2010, July 21-22). Documenting and Interpreting Ways to Engage Students in ‘Thinking Like a Physicist’. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon. Retrieved April 19, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10387&DocID=1859
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van Zee, Emily H., and Corinne Manogue. "Documenting and Interpreting Ways to Engage Students in ‘Thinking Like a Physicist’." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, July 21-22, 2010. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10387&DocID=1859 (accessed 19 April 2024).
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van Zee, Emily H., and Corinne Manogue. "Documenting and Interpreting Ways to Engage Students in ‘Thinking Like a Physicist’." Physics Education Research Conference 2010. Portland, Oregon: 2010. 61-64 Vol. 1289 of PER Conference Invited Paper. 19 Apr. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10387&DocID=1859>.
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