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Pre-Service Physics Teachers And Physics Education Research, David Rosengrant Jul 2017

Pre-Service Physics Teachers And Physics Education Research, David Rosengrant

David Rosengrant

Training pre-service teachers requires, among other things, content knowledge, pedagogical skills and pedagogical content knowledge. Teacher preparation programs have little, if any spare time to add more courses/activities to their program. However, I argue in this paper that we, as educators, must enhance the amount of physics education research in our pre-service physics teacher training programs. In this study, I analyze the results of two different types of exposure to physics education research (PER) from two different groups of pre-service physics teachers in our masters of arts and teaching program. The preliminary results show, for example that the PER helped …


Australian Curriculum Linked Lessons, Derek Hurrell May 2016

Australian Curriculum Linked Lessons, Derek Hurrell

Derek Hurrell

In providing a continued focus on tasks and activities that help to illustrate key ideas embedded in the new Australian Curriculum, in this issue we focus, on Algebra in the Number and Algebra strand.


Purposeful Statistical Investigations, Lorraine Day May 2016

Purposeful Statistical Investigations, Lorraine Day

Lorraine Day

Lorraine Day provides us with a great range of statistical investigations using various resources such as maths300 and TinkerPlots. Each of the investigations link mathematics to students' lives and provide engaging and meaningful contexts for mathematical inquiry.


It's All About Relationships : Urban Middle Schools Students Speak Out On Effective Schooling Practices, Mark Storz, Karen Nestor Dec 2007

It's All About Relationships : Urban Middle Schools Students Speak Out On Effective Schooling Practices, Mark Storz, Karen Nestor

Mark G. Storz

No abstract provided.