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Diversity of Faculty Practice in Workshop Classrooms
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Scott V. Franklin and Tricia Chapman
We present a temporally fine-grained characterization of faculty practice in workshop-style introductory physics courses. Practice is binned in five minute intervals and coded through two complementary observational protocols: the Reform Teaching Observation Protocol provides a summative assessment of fidelity to reform-teaching principles, while the Teaching Dimensions Observation Protocol records direct practice. We find that the TDOP's direct coding of practice explains nuances in the holistic RTOP score, with higher RTOP scores corresponding to less lecture, but not necessarily more student-directed activities. Despite using similar materials, faculty show significant differences in practice that manifests in both TDOP and RTOP scores. We also find a significant dependence of practice on course subject reflected in both RTOP and TDOP scores, with Electricity & Magnetism using more instructor-centered practices (lecture, illustration, etc.) than Mechanics courses.
Physics Education Research Conference 2012
Part of the PER Conference series
Philadelphia, PA: August 1-2, 2012
Volume 1513, Pages 130-133
<a href="https://www.compadre.org/OSP/items/detail.cfm?ID=12791">Franklin, Scott, and Tricia Chapman. "Diversity of Faculty Practice in Workshop Classrooms." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, August 1-2, 2012.</a>
S. Franklin and T. Chapman, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, 2012, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12791&DocID=3326).
S. Franklin and T. Chapman, Diversity of Faculty Practice in Workshop Classrooms, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, 2012, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12791&DocID=3326>.
Franklin, S., & Chapman, T. (2012, August 1-2). Diversity of Faculty Practice in Workshop Classrooms. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA. Retrieved May 17, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12791&DocID=3326
Franklin, Scott, and Tricia Chapman. "Diversity of Faculty Practice in Workshop Classrooms." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, August 1-2, 2012. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12791&DocID=3326 (accessed 17 May 2025).
Franklin, Scott, and Tricia Chapman. "Diversity of Faculty Practice in Workshop Classrooms." Physics Education Research Conference 2012. Philadelphia, PA: 2012. 130-133 Vol. 1513 of PER Conference. 17 May 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12791&DocID=3326>.
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