Arkansas site leader Gay Stewart and future teachers discuss the design of an assessment.

 

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University of Arkansas Project Report 2007

Publications & Talks

Publications

“Using Student Behavior Data to Better Understand Class Performance”, Physical Review Special Topics: PER, Submitted, John C. Stewart, Jennifer McGee and Gay B. Stewart.

"Context sensitivity of the Force Concept Inventory", Accepted, Physical Review Special Topics: PER, John C. Stewart, Heather Griffin and Gay B. Stewart.

“Pressures Lowering the Educational Value of Introductory Science Courses”, Accepted, Cell Biology Education, Gay B. Stewart and John C. Stewart, summer 2007 edition

“Learning Assistants At The University Of Arkansas,” APS Forum on Education Newsletter, PTEC Newsletter (2006).

“Recruiting New Teachers At The University Of Arkansas,” APS Forum on Education Newsletter, PTEC Newsletter (2006).

“Practicing What We Preach,” APS Forum on Education Newsletter, Summer Edition (2004).

"Enhancing the Student-Instructor Interaction Frequency," The Physics Teacher, Vol 40, pp. 535-541, D.W. Bullock, V.P. LaBella, T. Clingan, Z. Ding, G. Stewart and P.M. Thibado (2002).

Talks (not all contributed talks included)

Invited talk: Better prepared future teachers = better physics department!, March 2006 APS meeting, Baltimore.

Workshop: Undergraduate Learning Assistants: A Powerful Way to Improve Student Learning and Recruit Future Teachers, Gay Stewart (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville), Valerie Otero (University of Colorado at Boulder), and Stamatis Vokos (Seattle Pacific University).

Presided over a new type of poster session: Engaging the Community in the Preparation of Teachers of Physics, 2006 AAPT Summer Meeting, Syracuse, NY.
CoAuthor on Applying Socratic Method to Physics Education-Honors funded undergraduate research project, April 2005 APS meeting, Tampa, FL

CoAuthor on Quantitative Observations of the Use of Language in an Introductory Science Class to Better Understand Student Learning-Honors funded undergraduate research project, 2005 April APS meeting, Tampa, FL

More and Better Prepared K-12 Science Teachers; How Do We Know? 2005 April APS meeting, Tampa, FL

Combining Programs to Benefit Current and Future K-12 Science Teachers, 2005 April APS meeting, Tampa, FL

Invited talk: Intro Courses that Entice Majors and Improve Student Performance, April 2004 APS meeting, Denver

Beller, C. (2004) (with Marcia Fetters of WMU) When is Problem Solving Inquiry and When is Inquiry Problem Solving? Presentation at the Association for Education of Teachers in Science.

Beller, C. (2004) (with Marcia Fetters of WMU) When is Problem Solving Inquiry and When is Inquiry Problem Solving? Presentation at NARST.

Beller, C. (2004) (with Paul Hickman)? Presentation at NSTA.

Invited talk:  The Physics Teacher Education Coalition: a novel program for the preparation of K-12 science teachers, 2003 April APS meeting, Philadelphia.

Beller, C. (2003) When is Problem Solving Inquiry and When is Inquiry Problem Solving? Presentation at the Association for Education of Teachers in Science.

Evaluating Student Conceptual Gains: Our Experience in the PhysTEC Project, 2002 Summer AAPT meeting

Invited talk: "Shaping the Future": Preparing K-12 Science Teachers at the University of Arkansas, 2002 April APS meeting

Led discussion group on Teacher Preparation at Forum on Education discussion session, 2002 April APS meeting

Invited talk: Preparing K-12 Science Teachers at the University of Arkansas. 2001 AAPT summer meeting, Rochester, NY

Colloquium: An Overview of Physics Education Research, including Precision Education, at the University of Arkansas, USMA at West Point, April 2001

Invited talk: Preparing K-12 Science Teachers at the University of Arkansas, 2001 April APS meeting

Invited talk: Introductory Physics for Engineers, Chemists and High School Physics Teachers, 2001 March APS meeting