Workshop: Assessing Coherent Student Understanding in Introductory Physics Courses
written by
Priscilla W. Laws
This presentation outlines active learning techniques and active assessments used to measure student learning. The assessment instruments covered force and motion, electricity, and mathematical modeling. The results for various interactive-engagement curricula are given.
2008 PhysTEC Conference
Part of the PhysTEC Annual Conference series Austin Tx: 2/28 - 3/1, 2008
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Month = {2/28 - 3/1},
Year = {2008}
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