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Spring 2013: Fridays at 3:35 p.m. in Tate room 157

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Jan. 25 Friday 3:35 p.m. (group meeting) Seminar Organizational Meeting
Feb. 1 Friday 3:35 p.m. Peter Bohacek, Henry Sibley High School Direct Measurement Videos in Physics Class
Feb. 8 Friday 3:35 p.m. Mandy Straub, UMN Overview of the Zooniverse project
Feb. 15 Friday 3:35 p.m. Allan Straub, UMN Lab report grading rubric
Feb. 22 Friday 3:35 p.m. Leon Hsu, UMN Computer coaches for problem-solving in introductory physics: Usage modes and patterns
Mar. 1 Friday 3:35 p.m. Melissa Eblen-Zayas,Carleton College Rethinking assessment in upper level lab courses

 

Spring 2012: Fridays at 3:35 p.m. in Tate room 157 (unless otherwise noted)

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Jan. 27 Friday 3:35 p.m. (group meeting) Seminar Organizational Meeting
Feb. 3 Friday 3:35 p.m. Ken Heller, UMN Introduction of Physics education research
Feb. 10 Friday 3:35 p.m. Qing Xu, UMN Using computer coaches in introductory physics problem solving
Feb. 17 Friday 3:35 p.m. Leon Hsu Using computer coaches in Fall2011 introductory physics
Feb. 24 Friday 3:35 p.m. Kristin Crouse Developing the Internet computer coaches for introductory physics- version 2.0
Mar. 2 Friday 3:35 p.m. Mandy Pihlaja Introduction about the Zooniverse project
Mar. 9 Friday 3:35 p.m. Mandy Pihlaja Historical trends in science education
Mar.16 NO SEMINAR (SPRING BREAK)  
March 23 Friday 3:35 p.m. Brita Nellermoe, UMN Faculty Perceptions of Teaching and Learning: What Do We Know ?
March 30 Friday 3:35pm Jen Docktor Eye movement patterns while studying multiple representations of physics problems
Apr. 6 Friday 3:35 p.m. Laura McCullough Gender differences based on problem context
Apr. 13 Friday 3:35 p.m. Andy Rundquist (Hamline University) Standards-Based Grading with Voice
Apr. 20 Friday 3:35 p.m. Nathan Vanderby The emergence of online lectures
Apr. 27 Friday 3:35 p.m. Yuichi Kubota Using computer coaches in Spring 2012 introductory physics
May 4 Friday 3:35 p.m. Joel Donna "Online curriculum development tool- 3Ring"

 

Spring 2011: Fridays at 1:25 p.m. in Tate room 157 (unless otherwise noted)

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Jan. 28 Friday 1:25 p.m. (group meeting) Seminar Organizational Meeting
Feb. 4 Friday 1:25 p.m. Leon Hsu, UMN Using Computers to Coach Problem Solving in Introductory Physics
Feb. 11 Friday 1:25 p.m. Pat Heller, UMN Framing Appropriate K-12 Physics Standards: Will Students Be Ready for College?
Feb. 18 Friday 1:25 p.m. Danny Caballero ,Georgia Institute of Technology Reforming physics instruction at an engineering university
Feb. 25 Friday 1:25 p.m. Ken Heller, UMN Using Research Based Procedures to Modify the Introductory Physics for Biology and Premedical Majors
Mar. 4 Friday 1:25 p.m. Andrew Mason, (currently at University of Central Arkansas) Building Computer Coaches for Introductory Physics Problem Solving
Mar.11 NO SEMINAR (SPRING BREAK)  
March 25 Friday 1:25 p.m. Brita Nellermoe, UMN Faculty Perceptions in Teaching and Learning
Apr. 1 NO SEMINAR 2011 Minnesota Conference on Science Education at Mankato, MN
Apr. 8 Friday 1:25 p.m. Andrew Mason & Qing Xu, UMN PER group Assessing Student Problem Solving Using a Rubric: A Workshop
Apr. 15 Friday 1:25 p.m. Karl Ludeman Evaluation of Student Solution Rater Agreement
Apr. 22 Friday 1:25 p.m. Kawin Chaumklang Thai High School Physics Teachers' Conceptions of "Student-Centered" Teaching and Learning
Apr. 29 Friday 1:25 p.m. Anne Loyle-Langholz Evaluation of Student Problem Solving: Before and After Using Computer Coaches
May 6 Friday 1:25 p.m. Mandy Pihlaja Comparing University of Washington Tutorials in Physics with an exploratory lab activity with electric circuits

 

Spring 2010: Fridays at 1:25 p.m. in Tate room 157 (unless otherwise noted)

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Jan. 29 Friday 1:25 p.m. (group meeting) Seminar Organizational Meeting
Feb. 5 Friday 1:25 p.m. Brita Nellermore, UMN, Physics Education Research group Literature Review: Faculty perceptions
Feb. 12 Friday 1:25 p.m. Andrew Mason, UMN, Physics Education Research group Literature Review: Student Evaluations vs. Student outcomes
Feb. 19 Friday 1:25 p.m. Leonardo Santiago Concept Maps in physics problem solving
Feb. 26 Friday 1:25 p.m. Leon Hsu, UMN Student attitudes towards problem solving
Mar. 5 Friday 1:25 p.m. Sashank Varma, UMN, Educational Psychology Problem solving and its underlying neural mechanisms
Mar.12 Friday 1:25 p.m. Craig Ogilvie, Iowa State Univ., Physics Problem structure and student approaches to problem solving
Mar.19 NO SEMINAR or TBD (SPRING BREAK)  
March 26 Friday 1:25 p.m. Steven Olsen, UMN Phys TEC Epilogue
Apr. 2 Friday 1:25 p.m. Jon Anderson, UMN QuarkNet
Apr. 9 Friday 1:25 p.m. Leon Hsu, UMN, Physics The role of student attitudes towards "Physics by Inquiry"
Apr. 16 Friday 1:25 p.m. Ken Heller, UMN, PER group Faculty perceptionsCorrelations between student performance and evaluation of teaching
Apr. 23 Friday 1:25 p.m. Brita Nellermoe, UMN Faculty perceptions
Apr. 30 Friday 1:25 p.m. Leonardo Santiago, UMN Role of Mathematics in physics problem solving
May 7 Friday 1:25 p.m. Jen Docktor, Univ. of Illinois Urbana Champaign, PER group TBA

 

Spring 2009: Fridays at 4:40 p.m. in Tate room 157 (unless otherwise noted)

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Jan. 23 Friday 4:40 p.m. (group meeting) seminar organizational meeting
Jan. 26 Monday 10 a.m. room 157 Fran Mateycik, Kansas State Univ. Physics Education Research group Facilitating Case-Reuse Strategies for Problem Solving in Algebra-Based Physics
Jan. 30 Friday 4:40 p.m. (group discussion / reports on PER groups in the U.S.) What is Physics Education Research?
Feb. 6 Friday 4:40 p.m. (group discussion / reports on PER groups in the U.S.) What is Physics Education Research? (part 2)
Feb. 13 Friday 2:30 p.m. room 236A Ken Heller, UMN Physics / PER Predicting Introductory Physics Performance
Feb. 20 Friday 4:40 p.m. Jennifer Docktor, UMN PER Applying a Simple Rubric to Assess Student Problem Solving
Feb. 27 Friday 4:40 p.m. David Parent, Physics teacher at Irondale High School Modeling Instruction in High School Physics (Arizona State University program)
March 6 Friday 4:40 p.m. Group Discussion: Learning Physics in the U.S. and China

Article in Science (Jan. 30, 2009)

NPR Science Friday radio broadcast featuring Lei Bao from OSU (Jan. 30, 2009)

Lawson test of scientific reasoning

March 13 Friday 2:30 p.m. room 236A Brita Nellermoe, UMN The Force Concept Inventory
March 20 NO SEMINAR (SPRING BREAK)  
March 27 Friday 4:40 p.m. Jon Anderson and Cindy Cattell, UMN

Phys TEC at the University of Minnesota

April 3 Friday 4:40 p.m. Kawin Chaumklang & Brita Nellermoe Teaching Physics in Thailand
April 10 NO SEMINAR    
April 17 NO SEMINAR (NARST CONFERENCE)  
April 24 Friday 4:40 p.m. Paul Knutson, UMN Qualitative Problem Solving Skills in Introductory Labs
May 1 Friday 4:40 p.m. Brita Nellermoe, UMN Accurately Measuring Faculty Perceptions of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Physics Departments
May 8 Friday 4:40 p.m. Leon Hsu, UMN Post-secondary Teaching & Learning Using Computers as Problem-Solving Coaches for Students

 

Spring 2008: Tuesdays at 11:15 a.m. Tate room 435

Jan. 25 Friday 3:30 p.m. (group meeting) seminar organizational meeting
Jan. 29 Tues. 11:15 a.m. room 130 Ken Heller, UMN Physics / PER AP Physics Redesign: What are the Most Important Physics Ideas?
Feb. 5 Tues. 11:15 a.m. Paul Knutson, UMN PER Measuring Students' Qualitative Analysis Skill Levels with Respect to Problem Solving in Introductory Physics Labs: Approaches and Obstacles
Feb. 13 Wed. 9 a.m. room 157 Michael Marder, University of Texas at Austin UTeach and its implications for Minnesota: A discussion
Feb. 19 Tues. 11:15 a.m. Ken Heller & Yuichi Kubota, UMN Physics Graduate Education in Physics: Which Way Forward? (report on APS/AAPT conference on the status of graduate education)
Feb. 26 Tues. 11:15 a.m. Jon Anderson & Nancy Bresnahan, Master teachers for PhysTEC PhysTEC at the University of Minnesota: Start-up and Implementation
March 4 Tues. 11:15 a.m. Jennifer Docktor, UMN PER Robust Assessment Instrument for Student Problem Solving
March 11 Tues. 11:15 a.m. Jennifer Docktor, UMN PER Robust Assessment Instrument for Student Problem Solving (part 2)
March 18 NO SEMINAR (SPRING BREAK)  
March 25 Tues. 11:15 a.m. Leon Hsu, UMN Post-secondary teaching & learning Investigating Students' Attitudes and Beliefs Using the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey
April 1 Tues. 11:15 a.m. Charles Campbell, UMN Physics Using Learning Assistants During Lectures
April 8 Tues. 11:15 a.m. Vazgen Shekoyan, Rutgers Univ. Using Ill-structured or Multiple-Possibility Physics Problems in Introductory Physics Courses
April 15 Tues. 11:15 a.m. Joel Donna, UMN Curriculum & Instruction Ph.D. student TPACK and the RAT - Frameworks for Exploring Technology for the Teaching and Learning of Physics
April 22 Tues. 11:15 a.m. Ramon Lopez, University of Texas Arlington Visual Representation in Space and Geoscience
April 29 Tues. 11:15 a.m. Tamara Moore, UMN Curriculum & Instruction Getting Students Interested in STEM Through Realistic Nanotechnology Modeling Problems
May 6 Tues. 11:15 a.m. Brita Nellermoe, UMN PER Faculty Development and Teacher Training in Post-secondary Physics Departments

 

Spring 2007: NO Seminar

 

Spring 2006: Thursdays 3:45 p.m. Tate room 242

Jan. 25 Thurs. 3:45 p.m. (group meeting) seminar organizational meeting
Feb. 2 Thurs. 3:45 p.m. Ken Heller Developing an introductory course for biology majors - a continuation of the discussion
Feb. 9 Thurs. 3:45 p.m. Paul Knutson & Jennifer Docktor Introductory Physics Labs - Initial Steps in Measuring Students' Skills in Problem Solving
Feb. 16 Thurs. 3:45 p.m. Paul Knutson & Jennifer Docktor Professional Development for Teaching Assistants
Feb. 23 Thurs. 3:45 p.m. Brita Nellermoe & Sean Albiston LabVIEW in the Introductory Labs - New Developments & Future Directions
March 2 Thurs. 3:45 p.m. Laura McCullough, UW Stout Interactive Pedagogy - Helping Women Talk. Does Interactive Engagement Help Women in the Physics Classroom?
March 9 Thurs. 3:45 p.m. Leon Hsu Physics by Inquiry at Minnesota: Implementing a Lab-Based Physics Course
March 16 NO SEMINAR (SPRING BREAK)  
March 23 Thurs. 3:45 p.m. Rand Harrington, physics teacher at The Blake School Teaching Special Relativity to Tibetan Monks
March 30 Thurs. 3:45 p.m. Pete Border Home Labs for an Online Version of 1101 that Use Audio Instead of Video to Take Data
April 6 Thurs. 3:45 p.m. Paul Knutson & Jennifer Docktor "Chamging minds, computers, learning, and literacy" by A. diSessa; discussion of chapters 1, 2, 4, 5
April 13 Thurs. 3:45 p.m. Clark Erickson, MN Dept. of Education Science Standards K-12 and Requirements for Science Teacher Certification in Minnesota
April 20 NO SEMINAR (SPECIAL PHYSICS LECTURE)  
April 27 Thurs. 3:45 p.m. Lee Schmitt, Hamline Bringing High School Physics Teachers Up to Speed
May 4 Thurs. 3:45 p.m. Alice Churukian, Concordia College in Moorhead, MN How do We Know What Students are Learning and How do We Determine the Effectiveness of Instruction?

 

Spring 2005: Fridays at 3:45 p.m. room 157

Feb. 4 Friday 3:45 p.m. (group meeting) seminar organizational meeting
Feb. 11 Friday 3:45 p.m. Allen Goldman, UMN Chair of School of Physics & Astronomy Report of the Physics Graduate Education Task Force
Feb. 18 Friday 3:45 p.m. Tom Thaden-Koch Are Students Mathematically Prepared for Calculus-based Introductory Physics? Results from a Prototype Math Diagnostic Test
Feb. 25 Friday 3:45 p.m. (group discussion) University's Proposed Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: Can We Measure Them?
March 4 Friday 3:45 p.m. Ken Heller Changing the Introductory Physics Course for Biology Majors: Results from the Second Iteration
March 11 Friday 3:45 p.m. Cathy Mariotti Ezrailson, Texas A&M Visual Physics at TAMU: A Snapshot of reform Methods and their Application to Recitation and Lab
March 18 NO SEMINAR (SPRING BREAK)  
March 25 Friday 3:45 p.m. Brian Andersson, demo coordinator Relating Conceptual Gains in Introductory Physics to Classroom Demonstrations: Do we Have the Data?
April 1 Friday 3:45 p.m. (group discussion) University's Strategic Positioning Report
April 8 Friday 3:45 p.m. Dick Schwarz A Database for Storage, Retrieval, and Analysis of Test Data from Physics Courses
April 15 Friday 3:45 p.m. Rand Harrington, physics teacher at The Blake School Implementation and Assessment of Web-based Homework Delivery Systems
April 22 Friday 3:45 p.m. Leon Hsu Designing Computer Coaches to Help Students become Better Problem Solvers: A Progress Report
April 22 Friday 3:45 p.m. Cynthia Cattell & Charles Campbell Physics for (Future) Elementary Teachers: Teaching PHYS3071 with the New PET Curriculum
May 6 NO SEMINAR    

 

Spring 2004: Tuesdays 4:40-5:30 p.m. Tate room 236A

Jan. 20 Tues. 4:40 p.m. Paul Knutson, Vince Kuo, Tom Thaden-Koch Preview of Presentations to be made at AAPT winter meeting
Jan. 27 NO SEMINAR AAPT WINTER MEETING  
Feb. 3 Tues. 4:40 p.m. Ken Heller A Progress Report on Revising a Physics Course for Biology Majors Part 1: Course Design and Justifications for Revising the Course
Feb. 10 Tues. 4:40 p.m. Ken Heller (part 2) A Progress Report on Revising a Physics Course for Biology Majors (Part 2)
Feb. 17 Tues. 4:40 p.m. Michel Janssen A New Undergraduate Physics Course: Einstein for Everyone
Feb. 24 Tues. 4:40 p.m. Michel Janssen (part 2) A New Undergraduate Physics Course: Einstein for Everyone (Part 2)
March 2 Tues. 4:40 p.m. Vince Kuo Physics Instructors' Views on how Students Should Solve Problems
March 9 Tues. 4:40 p.m. Tom Thaden-Koch Using Coordination Classes to Understand Students' Judgments of Motion
March 16 NO SEMINAR (SPRING BREAK)  
March 23 Tues. 4:40 p.m. Pete Border Physics for Game Designers
March 30 Tues. 4:40 p.m. (group discussion) Discussion on Elaine Seymour's work on undergraduate education in STEM
April 6 Tues. 4:40 p.m. Charles Campbell & P.J. Ellis Restructuring Upper Level Physics Courses
April 13 NO SEMINAR (PHYSICS NOBEL LECTURE)  
April 20 Tues. 4:40 p.m. Leon Hsu Using Computers as Interactive Problem-Solving Coaches
April 27 Tues. 4:40 p.m. Tom Thaden-Koch (part 2) Using Coordination Classes to Understand Students' Judgments of Motion (part 2)
May 4 Tues. 4:40 p.m. Paul Knutson What do Students Learn in Introductory Physics Labs and what Pedagogies Best Aid in their Learning?

 

 

Last updated on 05/04/2009