What
Physics Education Research says to Physicists & Physics Educators
Conference Website:
<http://www.buffalostate.edu/depts/physics/symposium04/>
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Friday, 16 Apri,l 2004:
9:00-12:00
APS Executive Business meeting (Campus House- Bldg #5);
12:00-1:00pm On-site registration (Bulger Communications Bldg #24)
1:00pm-1:20pm Opening and Welcome (President Muriel
Howard)
1:20pm-4:25pm, Buffalo State
Bulger Communications Bldg #24
Session I: Recruiting and
Retaining Underrepresented Populations (4 x 40min presentations + 20min
break)
Dr. Eugenia Etkina, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers
University
Can
Corporate America help? How Xerox does it with The Xerox Science Consultant
Program
Ewart
O LeBlanc M.S., Manager, Xerox Corporation [2:00pm]
Coffee Break [2:40-3:00pm]
Hints
from the Physics Enrollment Pipeline for Recruiting and Retaining Under-represented
Students
Dr. Michael Neuschatz, American Institute of Physics
Early
Career Rotational Programs Help Kodak Build and Maintain a Truly Diverse
Corporation
Dr.
John Lacek, Kodak Corporation
5:00-6:45pm
poster session (Buffalo
Historical Society)
5:30-7:00pm
cash bar and 6:45-7:45pm banquet (Buffalo Historical Society)
SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE
SPEAKER and FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
8:00-9:00pm, Friday 16 April, 2004
Buffalo Historical Society, 25 Nottingham Ct. near campus
Dr. Michael Zeilik, Dept of
Physics & Astronomy, University of New Mexico
By the end of the 20th century, robust research has proved that today's introductory physics and astronomy classes FAIL for most students most of the time. We are losing talented people from physics who often leave after running the gauntlet of disastrous learning environments. A full century of science education research and some twenty-five years of physics and astronomy education research (PAER) contains answers, focusing on peer interactions and classroom assessment.
Professor Zeilik received both
the American Association of Physics Teachers' 2003 Excellence in
Introductory College Physics Teaching Award, and the American Astronomical
Society's 2002 Education Prize. Some of his work is at <http://www.flaguide.org/>.
Free parking is available.
Attendance letters for teacher professional
development or AAPT Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credit are available. Courtesy
of J.S. Wiley & Sons, attendees will receive a complimentary
copy of Teaching Physics with the Physics Suite by E.F.
Redish, value approx $30.
Saturday, April 17, 2004
7:00-8:00am AAPT Executive Committee Meeting (Caudell Hall Bldg #18)
9:00am-noon, Buffalo State
Bulger Communications Bldg #24
Dr. Dewey Dykstra, Physics Department, Boise State University [9:00am]
Dr. Ronald K Thornton, Center for Science and Mathematics Learning, Physics & Education, Tufts University [9:40am]
Coffee
Break [10:20-10:40am]
Physics
Education Research-based reform at a multicultural institution
Dr. Richard Steinberg, Associate Professor of Physics and
Education, Physics Department, CCNY [10:40am]
Dr. Karen Cummings, Dept of Physics, Southern Connecticut State
University [11:20am]
Noon-1:25pm Lunch by own arrangement (nearby
restaurants)
1:30pm-2:50pm, Buffalo State
Bulger Communications Bldg #24
Session III:
Applying Research in the Physics Classroom (2 x 40min presentations)
Dr. Robert Beichner, Department of Physics, North Carolina State
University [1:30pm]
The
Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) in Physics Classes
Dr. Dan MacIsaac, Physics; & Kathleen Falconer M.S., Elem Educ
& Reading, SUNY- Buffalo State College [2:10pm]
2:50pm
Closing remarks: Presidents of NYSS-AIP and NYSS-AAPT; Fall04 conference
coordinators
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