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The list below includes instructional
strategies for introductory quantitative (i.e., algebra- and calculus-based)
physics courses that are based on research into teaching and learning.
Most have also been shown to be significantly more effective in promoting
student learning than traditional physics instruction. If you know of
strategies that should be added to this list or corrections that should
be made, please send an email to Charles
Henderson.
Strategies for the Whole Course
- Cooperative Group
Problem Solving (Heller)
- Investigative
Science Learning Environment (Etkina, Van Heuvelen, Zou)
- Just-In-Time
Teaching (Novak, Gavrin, Patterson)
- Learning
how to learn science (Redish, Hammer)
- Modeling Physics (Hestenes,
Wells)
- New
Model Course in Applied Quantum Physics (Redish, Steinberg, Wittmann)
- Overview, Case
Study Physics (Van Heuvelen)
- Peer Instruction
(Mazur)
- Scale-Up, Studio Physics (Beichner,
Wilson)
- Spiral Physics (d'Alessandris)
- Workbook
for Introductory Physics (Meltzer, Manivannan) - also
see AJP
article.
- Workshop
Physics (Laws)
Specific Strategies
- Active
Learning Problem Sheets (Van Heuvelen) - also see The
Physics Active Learning Guide (Van Heuvelen, Etkina)
- Assign "Realistic" Problems
- Cooperative Learning
Groups - also look here
- Interactive
Lecture Demonstrations (Thornton, Sokoloff)
- Open Source Physics (Christian)
- PhET
- Physics Education Technology Simulations
- Physlets
(Christian, Belloni)
- Ranking
Tasks (Maloney, O'Kuma, Hieggelke) - also look here
- Real
Time Physics Labs (Thornton, Sokoloff, Laws) - also look here
- Socratic Dialog
Inducing Labs (Hake)
- Think-Pair-Share
- also look here
- TIPERS (O'Kuma,
Hieggelke, Maloney, Kanim)
- Tools
for Scientific Thinking Labs (Thornton, Sokoloff) - also look
here
- Tutorial-Based Strategies - see Smith and Wittmann article in PRST-PER
that compares different tutorial styles
- Activity-Based
Physics Tutorials (Cooney, Cummings, Laws, Sokoloff, Thornton,
Redish)
- Open-Source Tutorials (Elby, Redish, Hammer, Vokos, Rosenberg, Scherr)
- Tutorials
in Introductory Physics (McDermott)
- Variation Theory of Learning (Linder, Fraser, Pang) - see their TPT article with an example from Newton's 3rd Law
- Web-based homework
Research-Based Textbooks
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