Teacher Education in Physics

II. PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE OF STUDENT IDEAS Much of the literature on PER in the U.S.A. over the past 30 ye ...

influences, and may even determine, his or her pedagogical choices and perspectives. In PER one would present this argument in t ...

epistemological development of the students of our pro- gram’s graduates. We hope that the research described here forms the bas ...

The first course contains the most studied topics in the PER literature for which effective instructional materials exist, as de ...

is then analyzed so they can respond to specific questions or issues, and discuss the data in light of the literature covered in ...

that was less rigorous, but still reasonable. This led to a third level of analysis to account for any errors or vague- ness in ...

student responses that were reasonable but primarily in- tuitive as opposed to those that seemed to be informed by the literatur ...

another. First—and unsurprisingly—future teachers with a nonphysics background performed far worse on content knowledge question ...

that proves fruitful even in a few small areas, it may give researchers some tools to use in other investigations. ACKNOWLEDGMEN ...

[32] L. C. McDermott and P. S. Shaffer, Research as a guide for curriculum development: An example from introductory electricity ...

Appendix A Sample of Take-home component of exam (student data not included with this Appendix, but it is included with the exam ...

Pedagogical content knowledge and preparation of high school physics teachers Eugenia Etkina Graduate School of Education, Rutge ...

edge of assessment. TableI shows how the aspects of the model are related to physics teaching. Three main points can be taken fr ...

are hired to facilitate interactive, student-centered ap- proaches in large-scale introductory science courses after they themse ...

of acquiring a cognitive skill with slowly fading coaching and scaffolding 36 . Scaffolding is a temporary support pro- vided ...

is a graduate level program. The Rutgers Graduate School of Education
GSE has had a master’s program in teacher preparation fo ...

different categories: strengthening the physics content knowledge, preparing to teach physics or physical science, and practicin ...

describe all of them in this paper, I focus on the similar elements in the structure of the courses in the following sec- tion a ...

that scientists use to construct knowledge and places a strong emphasis on the tools with which scientists reason. In each conce ...

described above. They plan and implement their own “high school” lessons in those courses under close supervision and immediate ...