Millikan lecture 1996: Promoting active learning based on physics education research in introductory physics courses

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 14-21

  Laws, P W ^a  

^a DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0038065688     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.18496     Document Type: Article

References (20)

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2. R. H. Kargon, The Rise of Robert Millikan: Portrait of a Life in American Science (Cornell U. P., Ithaca, NY, 1982).
3. R. A. Millikan, The Autobiography of Robert A. Millikan (Prentice-Hall, New York, 1950), p. 14.
4. In Ref. 3, pp. 40-41.
5. D. Bligh, What's the Use of Lectures (ADB, Devon, England, 1978).
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10. A. Arons, A Guide to Introductory Physics Teaching (Wiley, New York, 1990), Chap. 12.
11. P. W. Laws, Workshop Physics Activity Guide (Wiley, New York, 1997).
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13. PASCO Scientific Kinesthetics cart (SE-8747), (PASCO Scientific, Roseville, CA).
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15. See Ref. 14.
16. P. Cross and M. Harris Steadman, The Captive Audience (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1996).
17. P. W. Laws, P. J. Rosborough, and F. J. Poodry; "Women's responses to an activity-based introductory physics program," New Directions for Teaching and Learning 61, 77-87 (1995).
18. T. L. Wingard, E. L. Dey, and W. S. Korn, The American College Student, 1990: National Norms for 1986 and 1988 College Freshmen (Higher Education Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991).
19. Based on unpublished student survey data collected on 17 introductory physics courses at 14 colleges as part of the Workshop Physics project.
20. D. P. Jackson and P. W. Laws, "Workshop Physical Science: Project-based Science Education for Future Teachers, Parents and Citizens," in Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Undergraduate Physics Education (University of Maryland, College Park, MD), 31 July-4 Aug 1996.