Instructors’ reasons for choosing problem features in a calculus-based introductory physics course

dc.creator	Edit Yerushalmi
dc.creator	Elisheva Cohen
dc.creator	Kenneth Heller
dc.creator	Patricia Heller
dc.creator	Charles Henderson
dc.date	2010-08-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:17:06Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:17:06Z
dc.identifier	1554-9178
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/c3f18b567baa41b6aa845492a2ca02ed
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/18878
dc.description	This study investigates how the beliefs and values of physics faculty influence their choice of physics problems for their students in an introductory physics course. The study identifies the goals these instructors have for their students, the problem features they believe facilitate those goals, and how those features correspond to problems they choose to use in their classes. This analysis comes from an artifact-based interview of 30 physics faculty teaching introductory calculus-based physics at a wide variety of institutions. The study concludes that instructors’ goals and the problem features they believe support those goals align with research-based curricular materials intended to develop competent problem solvers. However, many of these instructors do not use the beneficial problem features because they believe these features conflict with a more powerful set of values concerned with clarity of presentation and minimizing student stress, especially on exams.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	American Physical Society, APS
dc.relation	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.6.020108
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1554-9178
dc.source	Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research, Vol 6, Iss 2 (2010)
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Instructors’ reasons for choosing problem features in a calculus-based introductory physics course
dc.type	article