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Teacher-Driven Professional Development and the Pursuit of a Sophisticated Understanding of Inquiry
Mike Ross, Ben Van Dusen, Samson Sherman +1
The need for highly qualified physics teachers in the U.S. is well established, and reform efforts are underway to develop novel and innovative teacher professional development exp…
Learning Assistant Supported Student Outcomes (LASSO) study initial findings
Ben Van Dusen, Laurie Langdon, Valerie Otero
This study investigates how faculty, student, and course features are linked to student outcomes in Learning Assistant (LA) supported courses. Over 4,500 students and 17 instructor…
From Fear to Self-Expression: The Contextual Nature of Physics Student Motivations
Ben Van Dusen, Valerie Otero
This study utilizes a sociocultural interpretation of Self-Determination Theory to better understand the role that learning contexts play in generating student motivation, engageme…
Teaching to Learn: iPads as Tools for Transforming Physics Student Roles
Susan Nicholson-Dykstra, Ben Van Dusen, Valerie Otero
Students who serve as Learning Assistants (LAs) and have the opportunity to teach the content they are learning, while also studying effective teaching pedagogy, have demonstrated…
Becoming Agents of Change through Participation in a Teacher-Driven Professional Research Community
Mike Ross, Ben Van Dusen, Valerie Otero
This study involves a theory-based teacher professional development model that was created to address two problems. First, dominant modes of science teacher professional developmen…
Physics as a Mechanism for Including ELLs in Classroom Discourse
Enrique Suarez, Valerie Otero
English Language Learners (ELLs) are frequently left on the periphery of classroom interactions. Due to misalignment of language skills, teachers and peers communicate with these s…
3rd grade English language learners making sense of sound
Enrique Suarez, Valerie Otero
Despite the extensive body of research that supports scientific inquiry and argumentation as cornerstones of physics learning, these strategies continue to be virtually absent in m…
Changing Identities and Evolving Conceptions of Inquiry through Teacher-Driven Professional Development
Ben Van Dusen, Mike Ross, Valerie Otero
This STEM education study investigates the Streamline to Mastery professional development program, in which teachers work in partnership with university researchers to design profe…
Changing Roles and Identities in a Teacher Driven Professional Development Community
Ben Van Dusen, Valerie Otero
In a climate where teachers feel deprofessionalized at the hands of regulations, testing, and politics, it is vital that teachers become empowered both in their own teaching and as…
Influencing Student Relationships With Physics Through Culturally Relevant Tools
Ben Van Dusen, Valerie Otero
This study investigates how an urban, high school physics class responded to the inclusion of a classroom set of iPads and associated applications, such as screencasting. The parti…