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Autumn 2019

Thursday, September 26 @ 2pm in 1136 PRB

• "Studying Gender in Physics Education Research: Beyond the Binary"
• Jennifer Blue, Miami University   

Spring 2019

Thursday, March 7 @ 2:00pm - 1080 PRB - Smith Seminar room

• "Using Machine Learning to Understand the Retention of Science and Engineering Students" 
• John Stewart, West Virginia University
• Faculty host: Andrew Heckler
   

Autumn 2018

Thursday, November 8 - 1080 Physics Research Building-Smith Seminar room

• "Facilitating Thinking and Learning in and Beyond the Classroom"
• Chandralekha Singh, University of Pittsburgh

Archive of previous seminars

Autumn 2016
 

Wednesday, September 14 @ 3PM in the Smith Seminar Room

• "IMPACT: helping middle school sciience teachers change"
• Gordon Aubrecht, The Ohio State University
   

Wednesday, October 19 @ 3PM in the Smith Seminar Room

• "Multiplex Network Analysis of Student Interactions in an Introductory Physics Course"
• Adrienne Traxler, Wright State

Thursday, October 27 @ 3PM in 4138 PRB

• "The Maiden Voyage of a Kinematic Robot"
• Matt Greenwolfe, Cary Academy

Wednesday, November 9 @ 3PM in the Smith Seminar Room

• "Assessment Reform, Moving Toward Performance Based Assessment"
• Yuhfen Lin, California State Univeristy, Chico  

Spring 2016

Wednesday, February 24 @ 2:30pm

• "The Next Generation Science Standards: Implications of Implementation and          Opportunities for Collaboration"
• Amy Schiebel, Edgewood College

Thursday, March 24 @ 2:30pm in SM2180 

• "Increasing the Impact of Undergraduate STEM Educational Innovations"
• Charles Henderson, Western Michigan University   

Autumn 2015

Wednesday, September 23 @ 10:30am - Smith Seminar Room

• "Moving Physics Education Forward: Developing the Next Generation of Physics
            Assessments"
• J.T. Laverty, Michigan State

Wednesday, October 21 @ 2:30pm - Smith Seminar Room - CANCELLED

• "TBA" 
• Lei Bao, The Ohio State University

Wednesday, November 4 @ 2:30pm - Smith Seminar Room

• "Escaping Bear and Snail:How Ready Are Engineering Students For Puzzle-Based Learning?"
• Bayram Akarsu, The Ohio State University  

Wednesday, December 2 @ 2:30PM - 4138 PRB

• "The Differences Amount Physics, Chemistry and Biology in Terms of Historical Knowledge
            For Science Teaching"
• Hyatt Seker, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
            

Spring 2015

Wednesday, January 21

• "Promoting Physics Student Reflection via Reading Logs and Learning Commentaries"
• Kathleen Falconer, Buffalo State University

Wednesday, March 11

• Cancelled

Wednesday, April 8

• "I Teach Problem Solving:  What Does This Mean and How Do we Do It?"
• Dave Maloney, IPFW

Wednesday, April 22

• "Using Physics Education Research to Investigate Student Use of Computational Modeling"
• Marcos (Danny) Caballero, MSU

Autumn 2014

Wednesday, September 24

• "Task Analysis and Instructrional Design: Being a Professioinal Novice"
• Richard Catrambone, Georgia Institute of Technology
   

Wednesday, October 22

• "Can Innovative Technologies Be Utilized to Measure Student Engangement Within a Course?"
• Rebecca Lindell, Purdue University

Wednesday, November 18

• "Examining Student Conceptions and Intuitions in Intermediate Mechanics: An Example in Linear Oscillations"    
• Brad Ambrose, Grand Valley State University

Wednesday, December 10

• "Role of Multiple Representations in Physics Problem Solving"
•  Alexandru Maries, University of Pittsburgh

Spring 2014

Thursday, January 16

• "Physical and Non-physical Explanations of the Star of Bethlehem"
• Aaron Adair, Ohio State University Department of Physics

Thursday, January 30

• "MOOCulus"
• Jim Fowler, Ohio State University Department of Mathematics

Thursday, March 27

• "The Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP)"
• Kathleen Falconer, Buffalo State University

Monday, April 7, 11:00a, 4138 PRB

• "Teaching the Physics of Sports: Experiences of a nuclear physicist"
• Michael Lisa, The Ohio State University - Dept. of Physics

 Tuesday, April 15

• "Physicists in the Classroom: What we do, what we say, and what we mean"
• Scott Franklin, Rochester Institute of Technology

 Friday, April 18

• "Introductory physics course redesign: Is it time to flip?"
• Homeyra Sadaghiani, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Autumn 2013
 

Wednesday, September 25

• "Physics Student Identity Development in Crucible Courses"
• Eleanor Sayre, Kansas State University Department of Physics

Tuesday, November 5

• "A Tutoring System that Simulates the Highly Interactive Nature of Human Tutoring during Physics Post-Problem Solving Discussions"
• Pamela Jordan University of Pittsburgh Learning Research and Development Center

Wednesday, November 13

• "TBA"  
• Physics Education Seminar - David Pritchard Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4138 PRB - 11:40 am 

Spring 2013
 

Friday, March 7

• Beth Lindsey, Penn State Greater Allegheny

Friday, April 25

• "Inquiry-Based Teaching for U.S. and Japanese Elementary School Science: Two Views, Two Practices"
• Sachiko Tosa, Wright State University