- KSU Physics Education Research Group
Kansas State University has one of the oldest active physics education research programs in the US. The Physics Education Group investigates how students learn and understand physics and develops ways to improve the learning and teaching of physics. Program is headed by Dean Zollman.
http://web.phys.ksu.edu/
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- Modeling Workshop Project
The Modeling Method has been developed to correct many weaknesses of the traditional lecture-demonstration method, including the fragmentation of knowledge, student passivity, and the persistence of naive beliefs about the physical world.
http://modeling.la.asu.edu/
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- Papers in Physics Education Research: 2000
List includes papers that may be of interest to researchers in physics education and to physics teachers interested in making their classrooms more effective. Papers have been selected that focus on high school or college level physics teaching, though they may occasionally be papers describing work with younger students if they seem relevant. This list includes papers published with calendar dates of 2000.
http://www.physics.umd.edu/perg/pap00.htm
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- Scientific Reasoning Research Institute (SRRI)
An interdisciplinary research organization devoted to the study of learning and instruction in the sciences and mathematics. Researchers perform cognitive research and apply it to the development of curricula to teach science and mathematics concepts and problem solving skills. SRRI is located at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
http://srri.umass.edu/
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- The CPU Project
The Constructing Physics Understanding in a Computer-Supported Learning Environment Project (or the CPU Project) is aimed at creating laboratory and computer-based materials to support a learning environment where students take primary responsibility for developing valid and robust knowledge in physics.
http://cpucips.sdsu.edu/web/CPU/default.html
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