2009 Fall PER Seminar Schedule

Cardwell 119

Mondays at 2:30 p.m.

(unless otherwise specified)

Date Topic Speaker Reactant
Aug 24 Organizational & Group Meeting
Aug 31 AAPT/PERC De-Brief
Sep 7 University Holiday - Labor Day
Sep 14 APOS Theory - A Framework for Conceptual Development Andy Bennett Dong-Hai Nguyen
Sep 21 Eye Tracking -- Another Tool to Measure Student Cognition? : A Discussion of Two Papers (Click here & here for papers) Adrian Carmichael, Liz Gire & Sanjay Rebello Dean Zollman
Sep 28 Thinking about Factors that Affect the Difficulty of a Physics Problem Liz Gire Sytil Murphy
Oct 5 Fall Break - No Seminar
Oct 12 Group Meeting
Oct 19 Guided Inquiry & Freshman Chemistry OR A Mish-Mashy Hodge-Podge Look at Some of the Factors that Determine Success in Freshman Chemistry Lou Wojcinski Chris Nakamura
Oct 26 To Be Efficient or to Innovate? - That is the Assessment  (Click here for paper and here for the handout) Sanjay Rebello Jackie Chini
Nov 2 in CW 220 The Pathway Active Learning Environment: Multimedia Instruction with Social Interaction Chris Nakamura Mojgan Matloob Haghanikar
Nov 9 Group Meeting
Nov 16 Escape by Thinking Mojgan Matloob Sanjay Rebello
Nov 23 Exploring Students' Difficulties with Problems in Multiple Representations in Electromagnetism Dong-Hai Nguyen Andy Bennett
Nov 30 The Psychonomics Conference: A Debrief Elizabeth Gire, Sanjay Rebello & Adrian Carmichael Jackie Chini
Dec 7 Unstructured Problems in an Advanced Undergraduate Electronics Course: PMI Nasser Juma Liz Gire

 

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