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[Assistant-faculty] Meeting with colloquium speaker, Prof. Noah Finkelstein, Friday Sep. 7
Dear all,
this week colloquium speaker is going to be Prof. Noah Finkelstein, from
Univ. of Colorado - Boulder. The title and abstract are below.
Prof. Finkelstein will visit Tufts all day on Friday, and will leave on
Saturday.
I am putting together a schedule for Friday. If you are interested to
speak with him at some point during the day, please let me know your
preferred time (and a couple of alternatives as well).
Thank you.
Best regards,
Danilo
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TITLE:
Physics Education Research: a resource for educational transformation at a
critical time.
ABSTRACT
After decades of research into student learning, assessments, and
curriculum design, physics is considered one of the leading fields engaged
in discipline-based educational research (DBER). Simultaneously,
unprecedented national attention is now being paid to the outcomes of and
needs for DBER. After framing the national-scale scene of physics
education, and how physics education research (PER) is positioned to
contribute to the national dialog, I will review the growth of our own
program at CU, and my own work at the individual, the course, and the
departmental scales. I will present samples of these scales reviewing:
novel work on student use of representation and analogy in physics
learning, demonstration of the impacts of teaching interpretive themes on
student learning of quantum mechanics in our modern physics courses, and
conclude with how subtle faculty choices influence something as canonical
as clicker use in our introductory physics sequence. Time and interest
permitting we can explore the development of a framework for understanding
(and effecting) sustained change in undergraduate physics education.
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Dr. Danilo Marchesini
Assistant Professor in Astrophysics
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Department
Science and Technology Center (STC)
4 Colby Street
Medford, MA 02155 USA
Tel. 617-627-2756
Fax 617-627-3878
Danilo Marchesini tufts edu<mailto:Danilo Marchesini tufts edu>
http://cosmos2.phy.tufts.edu/~danilo/
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