Cognitive Research--What's in It for Physics Teachers?

Autor/inn/en	Mestre, Jose; Touger, Jerold
Titel	Cognitive Research--What's in It for Physics Teachers?
Quelle	(1988), (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Cognitive Development; Cognitive Structures; College Science; Higher Education; Inservice Teacher Education; Misconceptions; Physics; Problem Solving; Science Education; Scientific Concepts; Secondary Education; Secondary School Science; Teaching Skills; Teaching Styles + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kognitive Entwicklung; Cognitive structure; Kognitive Struktur; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Lehrerfortbildung; Missverständnis; Physik; Problemlösen; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Sekundarbereich; Lehrbefähigung; Lehrkompetenz; Unterrichtsbefähigung; Lehrstil; Unterrichtsstil
Abstract	It is often both possible and valuable for a teacher to be a researcher in his or her own classroom. This paper describes the nature of cognitive research and focuses on two areas of research that may be of special interest to classroom physics teachers. The first area refers to misconceptions that students bring with them to their physics classes. This part includes the nature of misconceptions, some examples, and implications for classroom teaching with instructional examples. The second area deals with different ways that novices and experts go about storing and accessing information and solving problems. Topics included are expert/novice differences in knowledge organization and problem solving, results of the Hierarchical Analysis Tool (HAT) study, and some implications for the classroom. Discussed are the improvement of instruction, the development of testing instruments, and the necessity of teacher involvement in research. (YP)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC