J. Burciaga, C. Crouch, V. Sawtelle, and K. Tanner, AAPT Summer 2013 (2013).
Attached are the presentations from the AAPT Summer 2013 Invited Session on Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences (IPLS). For a number of years a growing portion of the physics…
K. Marrs, R. Blake, and A. Gavrin, J. Coll. Sci. Teaching, 33 (1), 42-47 (2003).
We describe the use of web-based Warm Up exercises to reveal students prior knowledge and misconceptions in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. This paper shows how the use of…
C. Crouch, P. Wisittanawat, and K. Renninger, PERC 2013 Proceedings, 105-108.
To examine the effect of extensive life science applications on student attitudes to learning physics, we analyzed CLASS data from life science students in introductory physics. We…
B. Geller, B. Dreyfus, J. Gouvea, V. Sawtelle, C. Turpen, and E. Redish, PERC 2013 Proceedings, 157-160.
In our Introductory Physics for Life Scientists (IPLS) course at the University of Maryland, we are building interdisciplinary bridges that help students better understand…
B. Dreyfus, B. Geller, J. Gouvea, V. Sawtelle, C. Turpen, and E. Redish, PERC 2013 Proceedings, 129-132.
Much recent work in physics education research has focused on ontological metaphors for energy, particularly the substance ontology and its pedagogical affordances. The concept of…
