Education majors’ expectations and reported experiences with inquiry-based physics: Implications for student affect

To address a perennial need to provide K-8 teachers with a solid foundation in science, there are many physics content courses throughout the United States. One such course is Physics and Astronomy for Teachers (PAT), which relies heavily on active-learning strategies. Although PAT is successful in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jon D. H. Gaffney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2013-04-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.9.010112