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Peer Instruction: Ten years of experience and results
Catherine H. Crouch,Eric Mazur +1 more
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The authors report data from ten years of teaching with peer instruction (PI) in the calculus and algebra-based introductory physics courses for nonmajors; their results indicate increased student mastery of both conceptual reasoning and quantitative problem solving upon implementing PI.Abstract:
We report data from ten years of teaching with Peer Instruction (PI) in the calculus- and algebra-based introductory physics courses for nonmajors; our results indicate increased student mastery of both conceptual reasoning and quantitative problem solving upon implementing PI. We also discuss ways we have improved our implementation of PI since introducing it in 1991. Most notably, we have replaced in-class reading quizzes with pre-class written responses to the reading, introduced a research-based mechanics textbook for portions of the course, and incorporated cooperative learning into the discussion sections as well as the lectures. These improvements are intended to help students learn more from pre-class reading and to increase student engagement in the discussion sections, and are accompanied by further increases in student understanding.read more
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Correlations of Students’ Grades, Expectations, Epistemological Beliefs and Demographics in a Problem-Based Introductory Physics Course
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Designing a web-based application to support Peer Instruction for very large Groups
Dennis Kundisch,Michael Sievers,Andrea Zoyke,Philipp Herrmann,Michael Whittaker,Marc Beutner,Gregor Fels,Johannes Magenheim +7 more
TL;DR: This research introduces a web-based open source solution that enables the transfer of the widely established Peer Instruction approach to lectures with in excess of 350 participants and indicates that this new solution is a useful artifact for implementing Peer Instruction in lectures with very large groups.
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Investigating Peer Instruction: How the Initial Voting Session Affects Students' Experiences of Group Discussion
TL;DR: This paper investigates how this initial voting session affects students’ experiences of the following discussion, based on student interviews which were analyzed using analytical tools from grounded theory.
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Interactive-engagement versus traditional methods: A six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of pre/post test data using the Halloun-Hestenes Mechanics Diagnostic test or more recent Force Concept Inventory is reported for 62 introductory physics courses enrolling a total number of students.
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Force concept inventory
TL;DR: In this paper, it has been established that commonsense beliefs about motion and force are incompatible with Newtonian concepts in most respects, and conventional physics instruction produces little change in these beliefs, and this result is independent of the instructor and the mode of instruction.
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Peer Instruction: A User's Manual
Eric Mazur,Robert C. Hilborn +1 more
TL;DR: A step-by-step guide to preparing for a peer instruction lecture is given in this article, with a focus on motivating the students and presenting concepts to motivate them during the lecture.
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The initial knowledge state of college physics students
Ibrahim Halloun,David Hestenes +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an instrument to assess the basic knowledge state of students taking a first course in physics has been designed and validated, and measurements with the instrument show that the student's initial qualitative, common sense beliefs about motion and causes have a large effect on performance in physics, but conventional instruction induces only a small change in those beliefs.