Teaching and physics education research: Bridging the gap

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Fraser, James M ^a,b   Timan, Anneke L ^b   Miller, Kelly ^a   Dowd, Jason E ^a   Tucker, Laura ^a   Mazur, Eric ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

active learning; faculty time; physics education; problem solving; research based instruction; student learning; student resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897788945     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/77/3/032401     Document Type: Review

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