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2. Modular reasoning structures:

Teaching Physics with the Physics Suite Primitives and facets
3. Activating resources from everyday experience:
Situated cognition
Edward F. Redish Implications of the Cognitive Model for Instruction: Five foothold
principles
TABLE of CONTENTS 1. The constructivism principle
2. The context principle
Preface
3. The change principle
Chapter 1 Introduction and Motivation 4. The individuality principle
5. The social learning principle
Introduction
Some General Instructional Methods Derived from the Cognitive
Typical materials for a physics class
Model
A new alternative: The Physics Suite
Cognitive Conflict
Motivation
Bridging
Who are we teaching and why?
Restricting the frame
The growth of other sciences
Multiple representations
The goals of physics for all
Rethinking the Goals of Physics Instruction
Are we already achieving these goals?0
Extended Content Goals
Figuring out what doesn’t work and what we can do
about it
Introducing Sagredo Chapter 3 There’s More than Content to a Physics Course: The Hidden
Why Physics Education Research? Curriculum
Knowledge as a community map
A Second Cognitive Level
Building the community map for education
Expectations: Controlling Cognition
The impact on teaching of research on teaching and
Expectations about learning
learning
The structure of student expectations: The Hammer
Even good students get the physics blues.
variables
I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it.
Connecting to the real world
Some caveats
Metacognition: Thinking about thinking
What this book is about
Instructional techniques for improving metacognition
Affect: Motivation, Self-image, and Emotion
Chapter 2 Cognitive Principles and Guidelines for Instruction Motivation
Self-image
The Cognitive Model
Emotion
Models of memory
1. Working memory
2. Long-term memory Chapter 4 Extending our Assessments: Homework and Testing
Cognitive resources for learning
Assessment and Evaluation
1. Robust reasoning structures:
Giving Feedback to your Students
Common naïve conceptions
Homework

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Getting Feedback from your Students Models of the Classroom

Testing The traditional instructor-centered environment
Designing exams The active-engagement student-centered environment
Exams as formative feedback The Population Considered: Calculus-Based Physics
Eight Types of Exam and Homework Questions Characteristics of calculus-based physics students
Multiple-choice and short-answer questions The hidden curriculum and problem solving
Multiple-choice multiple-response questions Some Active-Engagement Student-Centered Curricula
Representation-translation questions
Ranking tasks
Chapter 7 Lecture-Based Methods
Context-based reasoning problems
Estimation problems The Traditional Lecture
Qualitative questions A more interactive approach to the traditional lecture
Essay questions Demonstrations
Peer Instruction / ConcepTests
Interactive Lecture Demonstrations (ILDs)
Chapter 5 Evaluating our Instruction: Surveys
Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT)
Research-Based Surveys
Why use a research-based survey?
Chapter 8 Recitation and Laboratory-Based Methods
Surveys and the goals of a class
Delivering a survey in your class The Traditional Recitation
Understanding What a Survey Measures: Validity and Reliability A more interactive approach to the traditional recitation
Validity Helping your teaching assistants give better recitations
Reliability Tutorials in Introductory Physics
Content Surveys The structure of Tutorials
The FCI Tutorials often focus on important but subtle points.
The FMCE Should you post solutions to Tutorial pretests and
The MBT homework?
Attitude Surveys What does it take to implement Tutorials?
The MPEX Tutorials produce substantially improved learning gains.
MPEX Results Changing recitations to Tutorials doesn’t hurt problem
Analyzing the MPEX solving.
Getting improvements on the MPEX Students need to get used to Tutorials.
The VASS ABP Tutorials
Scientific dimension of the VASS ABP Tutorials are mathematically and technologically
Cognitive dimensions of the VASS oriented.
The EBAPS Concept learning can be tied to the use of math.
Cooperative-Problem Solving
Cooperative Problem Solving (CPS) relies on context-rich
Chapter 6 Instructional Implications: Some effective teaching methods
problems.
Introduction Group interactions play a critical role.
Research-Based Curricula

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The work of the group is better than the work of the Evaluating instruction: The Action Research Kit
best student in it Suite compatible elements:
Techniques for improving group interactions30 Peer Instruction, JITT, and Cooperative
The Traditional Laboratory Problem Solving
Goals of the laboratory Using The Physics Suite in Different Environments6
Often, less actually happens in traditional labs than we The role of room layout
might hope. The role of facilitators
A more interactive approach to the traditional laboratory Four Case Studies: Adopting and Adapting Suite Elements
RealTime Physics Using Suite elements at a small institution
RTP uses cognitive conflict and technology to build Gettysburg High School
concepts. Pacific University
RTP relies on psychological calibration of technology. Using Suite elements at a large institution
RTP labs are effective in building concepts. The University of Illinois
North Carolina State University
Conclusion
Chapter 9 Workshop and Studio Methods
Physics by Inquiry
Bibliography
In PbI, students learn a few topics deeply.
Students may need help in changing their expectations for
PbI.
Evaluations of PbI show it to be very effective.
Workshop Physics
Students in WP build their concepts using technology.
WP is developed through and informed by education
research.
WP changes the frame in which students work.
Evaluations of WP show it to be highly effective in
building concepts.

Chapter 10 Using The Physics Suite

The Idea of The Physics Suite
The Principles Behind The Physics Suite
The Elements of The Physics Suite
The Suite’s narrative text: Understanding Physics
Using the Suite in lab: RealTime Physics
Using the Suite in lecture: Interactive Lecture
Demonstrations
Using the Suite in recitation sections: Tutorials
Putting it all together: Workshop Physics
Homework and exams: Problems and Questions

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Appendix (on Resource CD) Reading List for a Graduate Seminar in Teaching College
Physics for Physicists
Sample Problems for Homework and Exams
Reading List for a Graduate Seminar in Physics Education
Estimation Problems
Research (courtesy, Diane Grayson)
Multiple-Choice and Short Answer Problems
Other Resources
Representation Translation Problems
Guidelines and Heuristics: Summary of goals, principles,
Ranking Tasks
and commandments
Open-Ended Reasoning Problems
Writing a Scientific Paper
Context-rich Reasoning Problems
Resources for Computer Assisted Data Acquisition and Analysis
Essay Questions
MBL information from Vernier
JiTT Problems (courtesy, Ellen Patterson)
MBL information from Pasco
Action Research Kit
MBL information from Texas Instruments
The Mathematical Modeling Conceptual Evaluation
Videopoint demonstration
(MMCE)
Information on the Student Response System
The Vector Evaluation Test (VET)
from Classtalk
Test of Understanding Graphics (TUG-K)
WP Excel Tools
Force Concept Inventory (FCI)
Information on the AAPT
Force-Motion Concept Evaluation (FMCE)
The Mechanics Baseline Test (MBT)
Energy Concept Survey (ECS)
Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM)
The Electric Circuits Concept Evaluation (ECCE)
Rate and Potential Test, versions A and B (RAPT)
Wave Diagnostic Test (WDT)
Determining and Interpreting Resistive Electric Circuits
Concept Test (DIRECT)
The Small Particle Model Assessment (SPMA)
The Measurement Uncertainty Quiz (MUQ)
Maryland Physics Expectations Survey (MPEX)
The Views about Science Survey (VASS)
Bibliographic Resources
L. C. McDermott and E. F. Redish, “Resource Letter:
PER-1:
Physics Education Research,” Am. J. Phys. 67, 755-
767 (1999).
L. Jossem, “Resource Letter EPGA-1: The education of
physics graduate assistants,” Am. J. Phys. 68, 502-
512 (2000)
Useful Books: A list of books that contain discussions of
student learning,
innovative teaching methods, and interesting
problems.

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