Physics Education Research Conference
**"Transfer of Learning"**

August 4-5, 2004
California State University, Sacramento

Tentative Schedule (by Time)

When	Where	What
4:00 - 6:00	Union Redwood Room	AAPT/PERC Bridging Session: Invited Talks & Panel Discussion
		4:00	Is Transfer Ubiquitous or Rare? New paradigms for studying transfer, Jose Mestre (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
		4:30	Assessing Transfer of Conceptual Understanding, Karen Cummings (Southern Connecticut State University)
		5:00	Measuring the Transfer of Mathematical Skills, Manjula Sharma (University of Sydney, Australia)
		5:30	Panel Discussion Discussant: To be announced
6:00 - 8:00	---	Free Time for Contributed Poster Set-Up & Dinner (On Your Own)
8:00 - 10:00	Ballroom II	Contributed Poster Session (Dessert, Coffee & Full cash bar) Posters will remain up all day through Thursday, August 5
9:00 - 10:00	Lobby Suite	Round Table Discussion (Parallel Sessions)

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5

When	Where	What
8:00 - 8:15	Redwood Room	Orientation
8:15 - 9:45		Parallel Workshops & Targeted Poster Sessions - I
	Delta Suite	Workshop W-A Getting Articles into Journals Robert Beichner (North Carolina State University)
	Auburn Room	Workshop W-B: The Physics Portal: Building a Self-Sustaining Internet-based Education Network David Hestenes (Arizona State University), Bernard Haisch (ManyOne Network)
	Folsom Room	Workshop W-C: Laboratory Math & Science for Cognitive Development -- Dealing with the Real Level of our Physics Students Jerome Epstein (Polytechnic University)
	Summit Room	Targeted Poster Session TP-A Challenges for the PER Community: Explor-ation of Common Assumptions, Open Questions & Current Controversies Organizer: Paula Heron (University of Washington)
	California Suite	Targeted Poster Session TP-B: Beyond Student Transfer: Graduate, Postdoc, and Faculty Development & The Road to Sustainable, Scalable Inclusion of PER Organizers: Noah Finkelstein (Univ. of Colorado), Melissa Dancy (Univ. of North Carolina)
	Lobby Suite	Targeted Poster Session TP-C: Going Up? -- Learning Transfer Among Students in Upper-Level Physics Courses, Organizer: Chandralekha Singh (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Bradley Ambrose (Grand Valley State Univ.)
9:45 - 10:15	Ballroom II	Break (Refreshments provided)
10:15 - 12:15	Union Redwood Room	Invited Talks & Panel Discussion
		10:15	What Coordination has to say About Transfer, Andrea diSessa (University of California, Berkeley)
		10:45	Innovation and Efficiency in Transfer, Daniel Schwartz (Stanford University)
		11:15	When you don't see it -- Why not? Zbigniew Dziembowski (Temple University)
		11:45	Panel Discussion Discussant: Jose Mestre
12:15 - 1:45	Ballroom III	Luncheon Banquet & Talk: Duncan McBride, NSF
1:45 - 3:15		Parallel Workshops & Targeted Poster Sessions - II
	Delta Suite	Workshop W-A: Getting Articles into Journals Robert Beichner (North Carolina State University)
	Folsom Room	Workshop W-D: Transferring PER Results from the Domain of the Researcher to the Domain of the Practitioner Kenneth Heller (University of Minnesota)
	Auburn Room	Workshop W-B: The Physics Portal: Building a Self-Sustaining Internet-based Education Network David Hestenes (Arizona State University), Bernard Haisch (ManyOne Network)
	Lobby Suite	Targeted Poster Session TP-C: Going Up? -- Learning Transfer Among Students in Upper-Level Physics Courses, Organizer: Chandralekha Singh (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Bradley Ambrose (Grand Valley State Univ.)
	Orchard II & III	Targeted Poster Session TP-D: Issues in Studying Transfer of Problem Solving Skills, Organizers: Kathleen A. Harper (The Ohio State Univ.), Thomas Foster (Southern Illinois Univ. - Edwardsville), David P. Maloney (Indiana Univ. Purdue Univ. Fort Wayne)
	Forest Suite	Targeted Poster Session TP-E: Determining Transfer of Learning with Longitudinal Studies Using Grade & Demographic Data on Individual Students Organizer: Wendell Potter (University of California, Davis)
3:15 - 3:45	Ballroom II	Break (Refreshments provided)
3:45 - 5:15		Parallel Workshops & Targeted Poster Sessions - III
	Folsom Room	Workshop W-D: Transferring PER Results from the Domain of the Researcher to the Domain of the Practitioner Kenneth Heller (University of Minnesota)
	Auburn Room	Workshop W-C: Laboratory Math & Science for Cognitive Development -- Dealing with the Real Level of our Physics Students Jerome Epstein (Polytechnic Univ.)
	Summit Room	Targeted Poster Session TP-A: Challenges for the PER Community: Explor-ation of Common Assumptions, Open Questions & Current Controversies Organizer: Paula Heron (University of Washington)
	California Suite	Targeted Poster SessionTP-B: Beyond Student Transfer: Graduate, Postdoc, and Faculty Development & The Road to Sustainable, Scalable Inclusion of PER Organizers: Noah Finkelstein (Univ. of Colorado), Melissa Dancy (Univ. of North Carolina)
	Orchard II & III	Targeted Poster Session TP-D: Issues in Studying Transfer of Problem Solving Skills, Organizers: Kathleen A. Harper (The Ohio State Univ.), Thomas Foster (Southern Illinois Univ. - Edwardsville), David P. Maloney (Indiana Univ. Purdue Univ. Fort Wayne)
	Forest Suite	Targeted Poster Session TP-E: Determining Transfer of Learning with Longitudinal Studies Using Grade & Demographic Data on Individual Students Organizer: Wendell Potter (University of California, Davis)
5:15 - 6:30	---	Free Time
6:30 - 8:00	Ballroom III	Dinner Banquet (Ticket Needed)

PERC 2004 Organizing Committee
N. Sanjay Rebello
Department of Physics
116 Cardwell Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-2601
(785) 532-1539 office	(785) 532-6806 fax
srebello@phys.ksu.edu

Rachel E. Scherr
Department of Physics
University of Maryland
082 Regents Drive
College Park, MD 20742-4111
(301) 405-6179 office	(301) 314-9531 fax
rescherr@physics.umd.edu

Michael C. Wittmann
Department of Physics & Astronomy
5709 Bennett Hall
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5709
(207) 581-1237 office	(207) 581-3410 fax
wittmann@umit.maine.edu

Physics Education Research Conference "Transfer of Learning"

Physics Education Research Conference
**"Transfer of Learning"**