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Challenging traditional assumptions of secondary science through the PET curriculum
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Michael J. Ross and Valerie K. Otero
This study seeks to illustrate aspects of a physics classroom experience in an underserved high school through the perspective of the students. This context was chosen with the intent of determining factors that lead to successful secondary physics education outcomes for populations historically underrepresented in STEM. Two class periods of physics were observed and interviewed in an urban high school while using the Physics and Everyday Thinking (PET) curriculum. Findings indicate that students came to value and positively identify with the activities of physics through instruction that fosters a more dignified student experience than traditional approaches. Specifically, this experience was characterized by the valuing of students' naïve and developing understandings and shifting the authority for validating science knowledge from the instructor to laboratory evidence and social consensus.
Physics Education Research Conference 2012
Part of the PER Conference series
Philadelphia, PA: August 1-2, 2012
Volume 1513, Pages 350-353
<a href="https://www.compadre.org/OSP/items/detail.cfm?ID=12850">Ross, Michael, and Valerie Otero. "Challenging traditional assumptions of secondary science through the PET curriculum." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, August 1-2, 2012.</a>
M. Ross and V. Otero, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, 2012, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12850&DocID=3382).
M. Ross and V. Otero, Challenging traditional assumptions of secondary science through the PET curriculum, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, 2012, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12850&DocID=3382>.
Ross, M., & Otero, V. (2012, August 1-2). Challenging traditional assumptions of secondary science through the PET curriculum. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA. Retrieved February 13, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12850&DocID=3382
Ross, Michael, and Valerie Otero. "Challenging traditional assumptions of secondary science through the PET curriculum." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, August 1-2, 2012. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12850&DocID=3382 (accessed 13 February 2025).
Ross, Michael, and Valerie Otero. "Challenging traditional assumptions of secondary science through the PET curriculum." Physics Education Research Conference 2012. Philadelphia, PA: 2012. 350-353 Vol. 1513 of PER Conference. 13 Feb. 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12850&DocID=3382>.
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