Inter-American Conference Report, Working Group 7

Physics Research Issues


1-1. How do I learn enough to do actual research in my classroom? What does it mean to do research? What are the things that can be done that can be called (formal or informal) research? Administer pretested exams? And so on.

1-2. How do teachers get to understand the material themselves or find out whether they understand it?

1-3. What is the best way to prepare teachers to be able to take advantage of research?

1-4. How can researchers share their results? How can they express themselves in ways free of jargon so that the teachers reading about the research can understand the results of the research?

1-5. What are the many aspects of teacher/researcher (teacher as investigator, cooperating teacher with investigator, teacher as reader of results) and which is it most important for physics teachers to be?

1-6. What does "physics education research" mean? What should it mean?

1-7. How do we motivate the questions of the differences among kinematic variables (speed, velocity, acceleration) in our students' minds?


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