EVENT: Science Education Seminar
Date: Monday, September 14, 2009
Venue: Toll Physics Building Room 4208
Time: 1:15-2:45
Who: All are welcome and everyone from Science Education and PERG are especially encouraged to attend
Speakers: Brian Danielak, Ayush Gupta, Andy Elby & the Engineering Education Group
Topic: The Role of Emotion and Affect in Engineers' Mathematical SenseMaking
Website: http://umdscienceedseminar.pbworks.com/
EVENT: PERG Crab Feast
Date: 29 Saturday 2009
Venue: Mike's Crab House, 3030 Riva Rd, Riva MD 21140
Time: 5:30 pm
Who: All people associated with the PERG group, including their children, spouses, and significant others
Contact for more information: Renee Michelle Goertzen
TIME CHANGE: Thesis defense for Brian Frank- Friday 8/07/09
Speaker: Brian Frank
Date: 7 August 2009
Time: 12 pm - 2 pm (not 3pm - 5pm)
Venue: 1305A Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: The dynamics of variability in introductory physics students' thinking: examples from kinematics
EVENT: Thesis defense for Brian Frank- Friday 8/07/09
Speaker: Brian Frank
Date: 7 August 2009
Time: 3 pm - 5 pm
Venue: 1305A Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: The dynamics of variability in introductory physics students' thinking: examples from kinematics
EVENT: Thesis defense for Tim McCaskey - Thursday 8/06/09
Speaker: Tim McCaksey
Date: 6 August 2009
Time: 1 pm - 3 pm
Venue: 1305A Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Comparing and contrasting different methods for probing student epistemology and epistemological development in introductory physics
Additional Info: There will be a reception for Tim immediately after the defenese. All attendees are welcome to join us.
EVENT: PERG Group Meeting - Monday 7/20/09
Speaker: Mike Hull
Date: 20 July 2009
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 1305A Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Undergraduate Engineering Students' Mathematical Sense-making
Abstract: Practice for PERC poster presentation
EVENT: PERG Group Meeting - Monday 6/29/09
Speaker: Tiffany Sikorski
Date: 29 June 2009
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 1305A Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Progress in coherence seeking--what does it look like and how do we find it?
Abstract: In a paper we just submitted to a learning progressions conference, David, Victoria (SDSU) and I define progress in inquiry as "more stable engagement in inquiry practices over a wider variety of contexts." I'd like to lead an informal, data-centered discussion about the some of the empirical (and theoretical) challenges of this definition of progress, using coherence seeking as an example. Note: Participation in this discussion will require temporarily pretending that coherence seeking is an established inquiry practice.
EVENT: PERG Group Meeting - Monday 6/22/09
Speaker: Saalih Allie
Date: 22 June 2009
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 1305A Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Saalih would discuss some of the current ideas that his group is pursuing.
EVENT: PERG Group Meeting - Monday 6/8/09
Speaker: Renee Michelle Goertzen
Date: 8 June 2009
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 1304 Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: How do tutorial TAs set the tone?
Abstract: Tutorial students learn how to "do tutorial" primarily from the explicit and implicit messages that they get from their TAs. These messages are most clearly evident in the first few weeks of the semester, as students and TAs negotiate their expectations regarding what kinds of answers are acceptable, who leads the conversation, and what the TA's and students' roles are during their conversations. We present a case study of a TA's interaction with a group of students during the first three weeks of the semester as they "set the tone" by communicating and negotiating their expectations.
EVENT: SPECIAL SCIENCE SEMINAR - TUES 5/26/09 10 AM, 2212 BENJAMIN
Speaker: Leema Berland, UT Austin
Title: A detailed discourse analysis of norms and epistemological resources influencing how one class engaged in scientific argumentation
EVENT: PERG Group Meeting - 5/11/09
Speaker: Joe Redish
Date: 11 May 2009
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 1304 Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Ontology of epistemology or, "Daddy, what's an epistemological resource?"
Abstract: One of the most important contributions of the resource framework to education research is the concept of an "epistemological resource". This was introduced by Elby and Hammer in a series of important papers ([1][2][3]). They suggest that one's judgment as to whether one knows something is structured and dynamic. I will propose a way to see epistemological resources as fitting in to an overall theoretical framework and propose some levels of structure that I have found useful in thinking about the development of expertise in physics problem solving. These include "epistemological framing" and "epistemic warrants." Discourse data from upper division and graduate physics will be presented in the hope of generating a discussion. The key methodological issue to be discussed is, "What kind of data is needed to support proposing a new structure?"
[1] Elby & Hammer (2001), "On the substance of a sophisticated epistemology"
[2] Hammer & Elby (2002), "On the form of a personal epistemology"
[3] Hammer & Elby (2003), "Tapping students' epistemological resources"
EVENT: Science Education Seminar - Monday, 5/4/09
Speaker: Luke Conlin
Date: 4 May 2009
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 2101 Benjamin Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Fantasy, Play, and Humor in Scientific Inquiry
Abstract: Inquiry in science involves both generative and reductive aspects. There must be
space for ideas to be generated, introduced, and developed. Alternately, ideas
must be challenged, critiqued, and selected. How do students navigate this
sensitive balance when doing inquiry in the science classroom? I suggest they
often do so using fantasy, play, and humor. In this talk, I will discuss
theories of play and humor that speak to the epistemological roles they can take
on. I will also show video clips of students using fantasy, play, and humor in ways
that contribute to the generative and reductive aspects of scientific inquiry. Then I
will conclude by naming all 50 state capitals in less than 2 seconds.
EVENT: PERG Group Meeting - 4/27/09
Speaker: Renee Michelle + Anyone who choosed to participate!
Date: 27 April 2009
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 1304 Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Literature Review
Abstract: I'd like to present a topic or two from my thesis work and solicit input from the group on what my lit review should contain.EVENT: Science Education Program Seminar -04/06/09
Speaker: Colleen Gillespie and Jen Richards
Date: 6 April 2009
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 2101, Benjamin Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Understanding How and When Novice Teachers Attend to Student Thinking
In our presentation, we offer a case study of one novice science teacher in order to explore how and when novice teachers attend to student thinking. We focus primarily on two classroom observations and subsequent interviews with the novice teacher, Alex, in which we see stark differences in how (and even if) Alex attends to his own students' ideas and reasoning in the classroom. Drawing on the theoretical framework of "framing," we consider the different ways in which Alex may be framing the kinds of activities in which he is engaged, and we propose that his framing may influence how and when he attends to student thinking in his teaching.
EVENT: NACS Seminar - Silvia Bunge 3/27/09
Speaker: Silvia Bunge
Title: Neurodevelopment of reasoning ability
Time and Location: 10:15, 1103 Biosciences Research Building
Abstract: The capacity to reason with complex information and to solve novel problems, often referred to as fluid reasoning, is a central characteristic of human cognition. During childhood, the emerging capacity to reason supports learning across multiple domains. Understanding this most complex of human abilities provides a daunting but compelling challenge. Brain imaging studies in adults have gained some traction on this problem by examining the neural underpinnings of a key component of fluid reasoning: relational integration, or the ability to jointly consider multiple relations between mental representations. I will provide an overview of research in my laboratory focusing on the neural substrates of relational integration in adults, as well as the changes in brain structure and function that support its development over childhood and adolescence.
EVENT: Bag lunch seminar by Dave Pritchard 3/25/09
Visitor: Dave Pritchard, MIT
Bag lunch seminar: Room 1305A
Dave will give an informal presentation of his current research in physics education.
Host: Joe Redish
EVENT: Science Education Program Seminar -03/23/09
Speaker: Anyone who chooses to participate!
Date: 23 March 2009
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 2101, Benjamin Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Dr. Phil Piety--Educational Systems Information Scientist at the American Institutes for Research.
Classroom Practices and Boundary Practices: Looking at Alignment and Cohesion for Middle School Science Assessment
This paper focuses on middle school science assessment: a topic becoming increasingly important for accountability. It is part of a larger qualitative study
into science assessment practices in a single Midwest state that collected evidence from individual schools, the state testing office, and several
organizations in between. Comparing evidence of assessment practices for science teachers with boundary practices of the annual accountability test
(meetings, school reviews, etc.), this paper explores the potential for interoperability between these two ways of accounting for student learning.
This perspective is relevant for designing assessment systems where the needs of accountability must be reconciled with the requirements of local classroom discourse. This information is useful for either a two-level (ex: formative/summative) or multi-leveled (ex: interim/district instruments)
assessment program.
Oraganized by: Dan Levin & Mike Stieff, EDCI
EVENT: Special Seminar: Leslie Atkins 3/20/09
Visitor: Leslie Atkins
Date: March 20, 2009
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Venue: 2121, Benjamin Building
Topic: Justifying scientific claims: Metarules of argument
Host: David Hammer
EVENT: Sightseeing with Visiting Scholar from Japan - 3/14/09
Visitor: Jun-Ichiro Yasuda,
Center for the Studies of Higher Education, Nagoya University
We will be sight-seeing around downtown DC, visiting monuments and/ or museums. Anyone
interested in physics education in Japan is welcome to join!
Host: Mike Hull
EVENT: Seminar by Jun-Ichiro Yasuda 3/9/09
Title: The Change of Physics Students through Participation in Teaching Development Activities
Time and Place: 4:00 1305A Physics
Abstract: The education committee by the students (ECS) was established by several students in April, 2003, with the aim of improving education in the physics department of Nagoya University. This committee was established voluntarily by the students without request from faculty members. As voluntary activity, the students of ECS plan and manage events to develop the academic ability of the students in the physics department.
The purpose of this research is to assess the effect on students as a result of spontaneous participation in teaching development activities. At first, we propose the assumption that students will become independent learners through the activities. To verify the assumption, we interviewed the 11 member of ECS with semi open-ended questions. We learned that such a program needs more than three years for students to become aware of becoming independent learners through participating in ECS activities. The developments of the students through activities are classified as three processes: developing the ability to put things in perspective, developing the ability to plan and manage the events, becoming independent learners.
EVENT: Visiting Scholars from Japan - 3/9/09-3/13/09
Visitors: Jun-Ichiro Yasuda and Masa-Aki Tanguchi,
Center for the Studies of Higher Education, Nagoya University
Host: Joe Redish
EVENT: Science Teaching Center Seminar - 3/9/09
Speaker: Jason Yip
Date: 9 March 2009
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 2101, Benjamin Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Connected Chemistry
Organized by: Dan Levin & Mike Stieff, EDCI.
EVENT: NACS Seminar - Michael Merzenich 2/13/09
Speaker: Michael Merzenich
Title: Brain Plasticity-Based Therapeutics
Time and Location: 10:15, 1103 Biosciences Research Building
Seminar Website: http://www.nacs.umd.edu/news/seminars.cfm
EVENT: Visiting Scholar from Japan - 2/17/09-2/20/09
Visitor: Dr. Naohiro Mae,
Department of Physics, Ristumeikan University, Kyoto
Host: Mike Hull
EVENT: Michael Wittmann visiting - 2/17/09
Speaker: Michael Wittmann, University of Maine
Date: 17 February 2009
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 1304, Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Process-object Reification
EVENT: Science Teaching Center Seminar - 2/9/09
Speaker: Luke Conlin
Date: 26 January 2009
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 2102, Benjamin Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Causal semantics of physics equations
Oraganized by: Dan Levin & Mike Stieff, EDCI.
EVENT: PERG Research Meeting - 2/2/09
Speaker: Renee Michelle Goertzen
Date: 2 February 2009
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 1304, Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Practice AAPT talk and poster
EVENT: PERG Research Meeting - 12/15
Speaker: Brian Danielak
Date: 15 Dec. 2008
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 1304, Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: TBA
Oraganized by: UMDPERG.
EVENT: Science Education Program Seminar - 12/08
Speaker: Kitty Tang
Date: 8 Dec. 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Venue: 2102, Benjamin Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: TBA
Oraganized by: Dan Levin & Mike Stieff, EDCI.
EVENT: PERG Research Meeting - 12/01
Speaker: Luke Conlin
Date: 1 Dec. 2008
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 1304, Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: TBA
Oraganized by: UMDPERG.
EVENT: Science Education Program Seminar - 11/24
Speaker: Randy McGinnis
Date: 24 Nov. 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Venue: 2102, Benjamin Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: TBA
Oraganized by: Dan Levin & Mike Stieff, EDCI.
EVENT: PERG Seminar - 11/19
Speaker: Linda B. Smith
Date: 19 Nov. 2008
Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Venue: 4220 Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Thinking and learning close to the sensory-motor surface creates knowledge that transcends the here-and-now
Organized by: UMD-PERG
EVENT: PERG Research Meeting - 11/17
Speaker: Amanda Woodward
Date: 17 Nov. 2008
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 1304 Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: TBA
Organized by: UMD-PERG
EVENT: Science Education Program Seminar - 11/10
Speaker: Kelly Schalk
Date: 10 Nov. 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Venue: 2102, Benjamin Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: A Case Study on an Undergraduate Student Interest Socio-Scientific Issues Based Curriculum Intervention
Oraganized by: Dan Levin & Mike Stieff, EDCI.
EVENT: PERG Research Meeting - 11/03
Speaker: Heather Dobbins, Joe Redish, Todd Cooke
Date: 3 Nov. 2008
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 1304 Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Physics for Biologists: Ongoing work + Grant Proposal
Organized by: UMD-PERG
EVENT: Science Education Program Seminar - 10/27
Speaker: David Hammer
Date: 27 Oct. 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Venue: 2102, Benjamin Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: TBA
Oraganized by: Dan Levin & Mike Stieff, EDCI.
EVENT: PERG Research Meeting - 10/20
Speaker: Ayush
Date: 20 Oct. 2008
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 1304 Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: On going work: "Student difficulties with equations in physics"
Organized by: UMD-PERG
EVENT: Science Education Program Seminar - 10/13
Speaker: Anyone who chooses to participate!
Date: 13 Oct. 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Venue: 2102, Benjamin Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Reading article on conceptual change - Chinn & Samarapungvan
Oraganized by: Dan Levin & Mike Stieff, EDCI.
EVENT: PERG Research Meeting - 10/06
Speaker: Renee Michelle Goertzen
Date: 6 Oct. 2008
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 1304 Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: TA Buy-in
Organized by: UMD-PERG
EVENT: Science Education Program Seminar - 09/29
Speaker: Stieff Group
Date: 15 Sept. 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Venue: 2102, Benjamin Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: TBA
Oraganized by: Dan Levin & Mike Stieff, EDCI.
EVENT: PERG Research Meeting - 09/22 - CANCELLED!
Speaker: Brian Frank
Date: 22 Sept. 2008
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 1304 Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Practice Job Talk
Organized by: UMD-PERG
EVENT: Science Education Program Seminar - 09/15
Speaker: Dan Levin
Date: 15 Sept. 2008
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: TBA
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: TBA
Oraganized by: Dan Levin & Mike Stieff, EDCI.
Speaker: Randy Gallistel
Date: 11 Sept. 2008
Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: 1103 Bioscience Research Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: TBA
Organized by: UMD-Cog. Sci. Colloquim Committee.
EVENT: PERG Research Meeting - 09/08 - CANCELLED
Speaker: CANCELLED
Date: 8 Sept. 2008
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Venue: 1304 Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: TBA
Organized by: UMD-PERG
EVENT: PERG Research Meeting - 08/11
Speaker: Ayush
Date: 11 Aug, 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Venue: 1219 Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Graduate Student Interview on Heat
Posted by: Ayush
EVENT: PERG Research Meeting - 07/28
Speaker: Everyone
Date: 28 July, 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Venue: 1219 Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Topic: Conversations around: ICLS, AAPT, PERC - what we saw, conquered, learned, or did not!
Posted by: Ayush
EVENT: PERG Research Meeting - 07/14
Speaker: Talk (Ayush) + Poster Session (Renee Michelle, Brian, and Ayush)
Date: 14 July, 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Venue: 1219 Physics Building
Who: Open to everyone
Posted by: Ayush
EVENT: Intro Physics for Biology Students Coordinating Committee Meeting - 07/10
Organized by: Todd Cooke, Heather Dobbins, Joe Redish
Date: 10 July 2008
Time: 12:30-2:30 p.m.
Location: 1305A Physics Building
*Lunch provided
Posted by: Heather
Speaker: Tom Bing
Date: 8 July, 2008
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Venue: 4316, Physics Building
Posted by: Ayush
EVENT: PERG Research Meeting - 07/07
Speaker: Tom Bing and Renee Michelle Goertzen
Date: 7 July, 2008
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Venue: 1219 Physics Building
Posted by: Ayush
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