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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