2008 Fall PER Seminar Schedule

2008 Fall PER Seminar Schedule

Cardwell 119

Tuesdays at 8:30 a.m.

(unless otherwise specified)

Date	Topic	Speaker
Wed - Aug 27	Organizational & Group Meeting
Wed - Sept 3	Discussion of AAPT Summer Meeting
Tues - Sept 9	Educational Data Mining and the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Educational Data Mining	Ben Wiles, KSU Math
Sept 16	Facilitating Case Reuse Strategies for Problem Solving in Algebra-Based Physics	Fran Mateycik
Sept 23	Blogs in Introductory Physics: A Research Based Approach	Gintaras Duda - Creighton Univ.
Sept 30	Group Meeting
Oct 7	Concept Categorization: A Newly-refined Method for Analyzing Student Understanding	Dyan McBride
Oct 14	Factors Influencing Students' Attention Toward Deep Structure Differences Between Problems	Fran Mateycik
Oct 21	The ALT-Pathway Project: Methods for Synthesizing Student-Tutor Interactions	Chris Nakamura
Oct 28	AOK Practice Talks
	Exploring Students’ Patterns of Reasoning	Sytil Murphy
	ALT-Pathway: A Web-based Synthesis of the Student-Tutor Interaction	Sytil Murphy
	Integrating Digital Hypertext with Hands-On Activities to Promote Design-Based Learning in a Conceptual Physics Class	Sanjay Rebello
Nov 4	Group Meeting
Nov 11	Exploring Students' Patterns of Reasoning	Mojgan Matloob Haghanikar
Nov 18	CoMPASS: Integrating Hypertext with Hands-On Activities -- Overview & Ongoing Research	Jackie Chini
Mon - Nov 24 at 4:00 p.m.	Colloquium Talk: Understanding Educational Reforms: Impacts of Physics Education Research	Steve Pollock (U Colorado)
Nov 25	A Research-based Approach to Transforming Upper- Division Electricity & Magnetism	Steve Pollock (U Colorado)
Dec 2	Physics by Inquiry and the Tutorials: A Glimpse Into the Curriculum Materials by the University of Washington	Sytil Murphy
Dec 9	Group Meeting

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