Teaching and Learning Physics
week 9 assignments

Tues 10/18: Assessment:
Teaching Physics: Chapter 5

standard proceedure --3 questions / points (optional 1 para summary)

Bring a conceptual or belief survey to class

... in addition to the surveys on the CD's included in the book you may consider http://www.flaguide.org or

http://CLASS.colorado.edu

 

Thurs 10/20: Voltage / Circuits

read/peruse the chapter / familiarize HRW yourself with the content.
No summary is due.

Read through Chapter 3 of Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching and Assessing - Through page 36 or as much as it takes to understand what the taxonomy is. [again no summary is necessary, even if it is a good idea] .

Pick 2 problems from your chapter, or LON CAPA set 8, or some place else.

Pick 1 problem that is progressive in the Redish sense of attending to beliefs, etc... you may use Redish's book chapter 4 as an example, or your own problems ... the ones you designed last week

Make sure that each problem fits into a different taxonomy box.

Identify where on the taxonomy of learning goals each problem would go, and disucss why.