Fall 2016 PER Seminar Schedule

Location: Cardwell 119 or Anderson 10
Days/Time: Mondays at 2:30 p.m. (unless otherwise specified)

Date Speaker Organization Title
8/22 Organizational Meeting
8/29 Refining Operationalizations on Ben Archibeque's Research Project (bring laptops to seminar)
9/5 No Seminar - Labor Day
9/12 Discussion Session on PER Articles: Oersted Medal Lecture 2001: PER: The Key to Student Learning, More than Misconceptions: Multiple perspectives on student knowledge and reasoning, and an appropriate role for education research and Student resources for learning introductory physics
9/19 Discussion Session on PER Articles:Using resource graphs to represent conceptual change and Modeling student thinking: An example from special relativity
10/3 Group Meeting with Kim Coble, San Francisco State University
10/10 Bahar Modir KSUPER A framework for understanding students' solving differential equations in Electricity and Magnetism (Anderson 10)
10/17 Bahar Modir KSUPER Discussion continuation on a framework for understanding students' solving differential equations in Electricity and Magnetism (Anderson 10)
10/24 No Seminar
10/31 Practice Posters for Research and the State (CW 119)
11/7 PER Group Meeting (Anderson 10)
11/14 JT Laverty & Ellie Sayre KSUPER Reference Management Programs (CW 119)
11/21 No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday
11/28 JT Laverty KSUPER Bibliographic Management (CW 119)
12/5

Michael C. Wittmann (2006). Using resource graphs to represent conceptual change. Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 2, 020105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.2.020105

Rachel E. Scherr (2007). Modeling student thinking: An example from special relativity. Am. J. Phys. 75, 272, http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2410013