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Pedagogical practices and instructional change of physics faculty
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We report on the initial results of a web-based survey of 722 physics faculty in the United States regarding their instructional practices. The survey responses indicate that most faculty report knowing about many physics education research curricula and pedagogies and are interested and motivated to try them in their teaching. However, self-reports of actual classroom practices indicate that the availability of these curricula and pedagogies has not led to fundamental changes in instruction. Faculty report that time is the biggest impediment to implementing more research-based reforms. These results suggest a need for research-based dissemination that accounts for the complexity of instructional change.
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- Authors
- Dancy, M., & Henderson, C.
- Affiliations
- Johnson C. Smith University (US)
- Western Michigan University (US)
- Venue
- American Journal of Physics
- Published
- 2010-09-13
- Volume
- 78
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1056-1063
- ISSN
- 0002-9505 (ISSN-L)
- 1943-2909
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- W2087333916
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- journal article
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- en
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- American Journal of Physics (publishedVersion)
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- National Science Foundation
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Innovative Teaching Methods
- Social Sciences › Education › Evaluation of Teaching Practices
- Social Sciences › Education › Science Education and Pedagogy
- Keywords
- physics education research, instructional change, physics faculty, teaching practice, educational research dissemination, faculty time constraints, implementation barriers, undergraduate physics teaching
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