Reforming physics instruction via RTOP

Physics Teacher

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 479-485

  MacIsaac, Dan ^a   Falconer, Kathleen ^a  

^a BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

physics instruction; reformed teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006100716     PISSN: 0031921X     EISSN: 19434928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.1526620     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. A bibliography of the many standards and calls for reform used to create the RTOP is found at http://purcell.phy.nau.edu/AZTEC/rtop/; click "Resources.".
2. Committee on Science Education K-12 and the Mathematical Sciences Education Board, Designing Mathematics or Science Curriculum Programs: A Guide for Using Mathematics and Science Education Standards (National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1999), p. 3; http://books.nap.edu/books/0309065275/html/.
3. ACEPT is described at http://ecept.net.,http://purcell.phy.nau.edu/AZTEC/.
4. S. Wyckoff, "Changing the culture of undergraduate science teaching," J. Coll. Sci. Teach. 30, 306-312 (Feb. 2001).
5. M. Piburn, D. Sawada, K. Falconer, J. Turley, R. Benford, and I. Bloom. Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP). ACEPT IN-003. (ACEPT, 2000). The RTOP rubric form and training and statistical reference manuals are available from http://purcell. phy.nau.edu/AZTEC/rtop/; click "Resources." Sample streamed video vignettes of physics teaching edited to particular RTOP scores are available from the same site under USING RTOP.
6. A.E. Lawson et al., "Reforming and evaluating college science and mathematics instruction: Reformed teaching improves student achievement," J. Coll. Sci. Teach. 31, 388-393 (March/April 2002). Discusses links between RTOP scores and student achievement gains for six physical science and four university physics classes, amongst others.
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15. An annotated bibliography describing Modeling Physics, whiteboards, and other innovative curricula is found at http://ecept.net/purcell/.