Physics Education Research Group (UMD)

 

PERG research meetings

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Welcome to the PERG Research Meetings page!

Check here for the latest information about the meetings, get presenter's notes, transcripts, and to add your own content.

 

What is the PERG Research Meeting?

The Physics Education Research Group holds bi-weekly research meetings where members and affiliates of the PERG@University of Maryland can interact, present research (at any stage of progress), and engage in lively critical discussion.  Presentations range from completed, polished talks to open-ended discussions around a potential research question.  

 

Time

1:15pm-2:45pm every other monday (alternating with the Science Education Research Seminars). 

 

Location:

Toll Physics Building, room 4208

 

Schedule:

September 20: Brian Danielak & the Engineering Ed. Group --

                         The Role of Emotion and Affect in Engineers' Mathematical SenseMaking (abstract) (supporting materials). We will continue

                         looking at the data that we started with last week at the SciEd Seminar - now exploring how Wanda engages in problem solving.

October 5: Ayush Gupta & the Engineering Ed. Group -- The Role of Affect and Identity in Engineers' Mathematical SenseMaking

October 19: Luke Conlin -- Modeling Cognition at Multiple Scales (paper being submitted to ICLS by Conlin, Gupta, & Hammer)

November 2:    Open

November 16: Ben Dreyfus: "Reactive Intermediates" in Students' Changing Mental Models: The Cause of Seasons

November 30: Discussion of grant proposals; read Joe Redish's and David Hammer's sample proposal to prepare.

December 14: OPEN

 

Past Events

 

 

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