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Dear Introductory Astronomy Instructors, This month on the Center for Astronomy Education website: http://astronomy101.jpl.nasa.gov This Month's Teaching...
Hi all I'm currently in an Ed Psyc class called Teaching and Learning in the University. I need to do a presentation based on 3 journal articles that are...
Hi Tina, Check out some of the physics education literature. For example the Hake article (American Journal of Physics 66(1), 64, 1998), or the work of Halloun...
Erik Brogt
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Apr 5, 2005 4:37 am
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Yeah I have been looking at the AER and the American Journal of Physics. I think the problem is I really don't want to do one of the inventories....the class...
Hi Tina, There was great review of astronomy education research published in the Astronomy Education Review by Bailey and Slater. That article would have some...
Erin Dokter
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Apr 5, 2005 3:44 pm
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Dear Tina, You can also check the article Resource Letter PER-1: Physics Education Research, by L. McDermott and E. Redish, at American Journal of Physics: 67,...
Tina, Check out the SABER database at http://shiva.uwp.edu/astronomy/ It lists data-based astronomy education research in various journals. It needs to be...
Dave Bruning
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Apr 5, 2005 3:50 pm
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Tina, When ever I hear about one AJP resource letter, I feel compelled to mention the other: “Resource Letter RPS-1: Research in problem solving.”...
Dave, The correct link to SABER is http://shiva.uwp.edu/saber. Your link goes to the physics/geology 110 course homepage. ... Erik -- Erik Brogt Conceptual...
Erik Brogt
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Apr 5, 2005 4:34 pm
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Tina you may find the article below useful. It is research-based, provides some data on pre and post instruction, and focuses on learner centered instruction...
Ed Prather
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Apr 5, 2005 5:51 pm
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ALL RIGHT!!!! That's what I was waiting for! Self-promotion!!!!! I asked the prof if I could use my MS thesis. I was like there is data on every page and...
You might want to look at the ARE article on a Lecture-Tutorial approach to teaching introductory astronomy. It is quantitative and talks about what works in...
... I'm just brain dead today and can't keep even my own web sites straight. I would like to make a pitch to folks to send updates to SABER. It is meant to be...
Dave Bruning
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Apr 5, 2005 7:55 pm
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Tina, Science Education is a Research Discipline with its own collection of Journals, all peer-reviewed with quantative and qualitative data. So you have...
Rachel Connolly
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Apr 6, 2005 4:24 am
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Greetings! I've been contacted by a local school district that plans to offer an astronomy class and a meteorology class next semester for advanced High School...
Hi I opened my big mouth in my Teaching and Learning in the University Course about the Moon Dance. Now they want to see it. I can't find the paper on it ...
Tina, ApJ, A&A, MNRAS etc. do not accept education papers as far as I know. I don't know about PASP. The only ADS entries that I tend to find on education are...
Erik Brogt
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Apr 14, 2005 12:14 am
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Hi Ken, I don't use a textbook, myself. But I am sure you will receive many suggestions for favorite texts. I just wanted to let you know that the NASA ...
Hi Tina, ADS doesn't reference any articles on astronomy education research (Günther and I have had many a conversation about this). I would suggest that you...
Hi Tina, I think you are barking up the wrong tree. If you are looking for 'Education Research,' you need to be looking at an entirely different set of...
... PASP and ApJ do not publish astronomy education. The main astronomy educ journal is AER at aer.noao.edu Alternatives are AAPT and the Physics Teacher Dave ...
Dave Bruning
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Apr 14, 2005 12:22 am
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... I would suggest that they define the lab portion first (CLEA labs, or whatever) because that would define what the text needs to say. I guess we would also...
Dave Bruning
david.bruning@...
Apr 14, 2005 12:22 am
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Tina -- The Moon Dance was published in The Physics Teacher: Jennifer Bond Hickman, The Physics Teacher 31(3), pp. 178-179, 1993 Probably it was in the "Astro...
Anne G. Young
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Apr 14, 2005 12:24 am
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Thanks! The problem is I am a slacker...(ignore that if you are looking for someone to hire) I have to give this presentation on Monday so I have to able to...
Hi All Some journals such as PASA here in Australia have devoted issues to astronomy education (eg Vol 17 No 2, Aug 2000) or included papers in other issues....
... Depending on where you are at, you school may have subscriptions to many journals online. This is the case at SIUE, where we have journals such as IJSE...
Rebecca Lindell
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Apr 14, 2005 3:57 pm
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Tina, The American Journal of Physics does accept educational papers, though (of course) mostly on physics education research. There are quite a few good ...