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The Dissemination And Effective Use Of Physics Education Research In Undergraduate Instruction, Trevor Stefanick
The Dissemination And Effective Use Of Physics Education Research In Undergraduate Instruction, Trevor Stefanick
Masters Theses
Based on the results of a national survey of physics faculty, a set of interviews was conducted of 70 physics faculty from a diverse set of institutions. The interviews included questions about the dissemination and effective use of curricula and instructional strategies based on Physics Education Research (PER), focused to obtain recommendations to the PER community that might help to spread the use of these PER-based materials. Approximately half of the interviews (those with faculty who indicated knowledge about or use of Peer Instruction) have been previously analyzed. This project is the analysis of the 38 interviews that were conducted …