...Physics education research Curriculum development Teacher training Scientific inquiry Electronic circuits Physical quantities Research, curriculum development, and instruction are all most effective as part of an iterative process that can proceed in either direction. Two decades of experience...

... and providing suitable situations under which students can best learn. In other words, curriculum can be thought of as “doing the right thing,” and instruction can be thought of as “doing the thing right.” This chapter focuses on curriculum development; the two subsequent chapters deal with unit planning...

... influenced by thinking in the broader area of education beyond physics or even STEM education. Beginning in about the mid-20th century, a sense of awareness of the state of science, mathematics and technology education in the United States spawned by Sputnik led to a curriculum development movement...

... ). 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.10.020119 Donahue , D. M. , History Educ. Q.   33 ( 3 ), 321 – 352 ( 1993 ). 10.2307/368196 English , F. W. , Deciding What to Teach and Test: Developing, Aligning, and Auditing the Curriculum ( Corwin Press , 2000 ). Epstein , L. C. , Thinking...

... to the physics curriculum from a range of stakeholders The development of introductory physics for the life sciences (IPLS) curricula “Authentic” examples: Ones for which a biologist/physician finds that physics gives meaningful insight Topic selection must attend to the students served as well...

.... Physics textbooks, physics teachers, and physics education contributions based on a survey of West German physics teachers) . Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften ( 1994 ). Mikelskis , H. F. , Four Decades of Research in Science Education—From Curriculum Development to Quality...

... ). 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.10.020119 Donahue , D. M. , History Educ. Q.   33 ( 3 ), 321 – 352 ( 1993 ). 10.2307/368196 English , F. W. , Deciding What to Teach and Test: Developing, Aligning, and Auditing the Curriculum ( Corwin Press , 2000 ). Epstein , L. C. , Thinking...

.... and Wiliam , D. , Assess. Educ.: Princ. Policy Pract.   25 ( 6 ), 551 – 575 ( 2018 ). 10.1080/0969594X.2018.1441807 Brookhart , S. M. , How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students ( Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development , Alexandria, VA , 2008 ). Brookhart , S...

... lab environment creates a highly coherent curriculum centered on experimental skill development and helping students understand the process of doing physics. The experimental skill goals are also restricted (though still extensive). Learning goals related to communication are not evaluated using...

... Jacobs , H. H. , Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation ( Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development , Alexandria, VA , 1989 ). Jewett , J. W. , Phys. Teach.   46 ( 4 ), 210 – 217 ( 2008 ). 10.1119/1.2895670 Kaldaras , L.   et al. , J. Res. Sci...

... Jacobs , H. H. , Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation ( Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development , Alexandria, VA , 1989 ). Jewett , J. W. , Phys. Teach.   46 ( 4 ), 210 – 217 ( 2008 ). 10.1119/1.2895670 Kaldaras , L.   et al. , J. Res. Sci...

... within a guided, active learning curriculum (for example, Sokoloff, 1996 ; and Thornton and Sokoloff, 1998 ). Important later developments included the inclusion of interactive video analysis for analyzing physical situations in mechanics ( Laws and Pfister, 1998 ) and later in other areas of physics...

... Decades of Research in Science Education—From Curriculum Development to Quality Improvement , edited by S.   Mikelskis-Seifert   et al. (Münster: Waxmann, 2008 ), pp. 57 – 65 . Mufit , F.   et al. , J. Phys. Conf. Ser.   1481 ( 1 ), 012041 ( 2020 ). 10.1088/1742-6596/1481/1/012041...

...— Etkina and van Heuvelen, 2007 ). Accommodating traditional lecture-style settings typically does not require the building of new, specialized spaces. Next Gen PET intentionally developed different flavors of the curriculum for distinct classroom settings (large lecture style classrooms or small studio...

... into the curriculum at opportune points so that students can recognize that they are now using words like “radiation,” “contaminated,” and “radioactive” differently than they were using them before. In the 1970s, IPN developed a curricular unit for grades 9/10 on “energy supply through nuclear power plants...

... ( Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development , Alexandria, VA , 1998 ). Dyson , L. , Teach. Teach. Educ.   93 , 103075 ( 2020 ). 10.1016/j.tate.2020.103075 Etkina , E. , Phys. Rev. Special Topics Phys. Educ. Res.   6 , 020110 ( 2010 ). 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.6.020110...

.... and Wiliam , D. , Assess. Educ.: Princ. Policy Pract.   25 ( 6 ), 551 – 575 ( 2018 ). 10.1080/0969594X.2018.1441807 Brookhart , S. M. , How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students ( Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development , Alexandria, VA , 2008 ). Brookhart , S...

... as pedagogical content knowledge that is necessary for effective physics teaching at the second level. Demonstrate an ability to connect physics content modules and the school physics curriculum. Develop a high standard of practical competence in physics teaching as reflective practitioners...

... takes up this challenge and makes its main focus on the development of “humble theories” that provide knowledge about specific teaching-learning processes in a domain or field of the curriculum, and research-based teaching materials. In this chapter, we have described and analyzed teaching proposals...

... curriculum approach is successful when the corresponding level of intervention occurs within the “zone of feasible implementation.” This zone depends on the level of development of schools, teachers and learners, and we consider that this statement can be extended to the implantation of every new resource...