Science Education Research Journal Club links
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This is not meant to be a comprehensive set of links, but rather
just a listing of links that ScERJ club members have recommended.
- PhysPort: curated resources
based on physics education research
- Science in the
Classroom -- annotated research papers and accompanying teaching
materials, to help students learn how to read journal articles.
- The Underrepresentation
Curriculum Project: A flexible curriculum designed to help
students critically examine scientific fields and take action for
equity, inclusion and justice.
- COPUS:
Classroom
Observation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM
- RTOP: Real Time Observation Protocol
- TDOP: Teaching Dimensions
Observation Protocol
- NPR
article suggested by Chris Beck: "Why writing by hand
beats typing for thinking and learning"
-
University is Wisconsin mentoring assessments
- OpenPhysics
website -- online textbook, open source code, elegant tile-based
interface, not just for physics textbooks
- ScERJ club blog
-- inactive since 2014
- Gendered language
in teacher reviews: explore words used to describe male and
female teachers in 14 million "RateMyProfessor.com" reviews.
Interesting words include 'genius', 'cruel', 'mean', 'amazing'.
- PeerWise: website where
students can "create, share, evaluate and discuss practice questions."
- Clicker
resources page at the Carl Wieman Science Education
Initiative at the UBC
- "9
Major takeaways from 'An Introduction to Evidence-Based
Undergraduate STEM Teaching'
MOOC", a blog post by Geoff Benn, aka The Prospective Prof.
- Context
Rich Problems -- University of Minnesota physics education group
- ATLMetroPhysics
-- Atlanta-based informal group which meets periodically to discuss teaching
physics
- How
to evaluate teaching effectiveness -- Center for Research on
Learning & Teaching, U. Michigan
- Team-based
learning -- some good ideas here
- National Lab Day
- 18
minute lecture
by Sir Ken Robinson on how we rob students of creativity by our
educational methods
- Text
of President Obama's speed on science, innovation, and STEM
education (at the National Academy of Sciences, 4/27/09)
- First day questions for
the learner-centered classroom, online article by Gary A.
Smith (National Teaching & Learning Forum)
- Clicker
article in the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Comic
books and faculty innovation
- Notes from CCLI
conference (Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement)
- "FIRST" -- a
database of assessment data from undergrad science courses, with
metadata.
- Course
design tutorial
- Some
of our ScERJ club members are famous! -- May 2008
- Student Assessment of
Learning Gains
- Understanding
Science, at Berkeley -- "how science really works"
- List
of assessment tools for quantitative reasoning etc --
Carleton College
- Physics Teaching
Technology Resource -- award-winning website, Quicktime
videos demonstrating physics concepts
Resources
- Concept
inventories in physics
- Case
Studies in Science
- Resources for
Problem-Based Learning -- sample syllabi, sample problems,
more
- Science in the
classroom: annotated articles from Science magazine,
suitable for classroom use (high school or undergraduate level)
- CLIPS: Communication
Learning in Practice for Scientists. "CLIPS is a site
designed to help you and your students with communication-related
activities in science courses. We have built modules on
communicating with numbers, presenting data, writing,
infographics, posters, talks, referencing, and more."
- Rubrics:
holistic, analytic, and single-point
- NRMN
has free online mentor training -- asynchronous. Takes 2-3 hours,
they say.
- Curated
Teaching Evaluation Initiative Repository -- The Teaching Evaluation Change Initiatives repository serves as a searchable collection of teaching evaluations, which are assessed on how well they are aligned with systemic change.
- Teaching
Evaluation Critical Resources -- - this searchable and annotated collection of publications and websites describes resources for evaluating faculty work to align it with systemic change for improved STEM undergraduate education.
Further links
- Spider
locomotion case study for physics