Physics Education Research Group (UMD)

 

Renee Michelle Goertzen

Page history last edited by Renee Michelle Goertzen 3 mos ago

 

Contact Info:

Physics Dept., University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742-4111

Ph: 301-405-6185

Email: goertzen@gmail.com

 

Research Interests:

  • Tutorial teaching assistants
  • Instructor attention
  • Instructor buy-in to reform instruction

 

Currently Working On:

  • How and why TA buy-in varies across institutions
  • Effects of social and environmental contexts on tutorial instructors
  • Institutional effects on the implementation of reform curricula and methods 

 

Talks and papers

"Accounting for tutorial teaching assistants' buy-in to reform instruction," R. M. Goertzen, R. E. Scherr, and A. Elby,  Accepted to: Physical Review Special Topics: Physics Education Research. (2009)

"Tutorial TAs in the classroom: Framing teaching as a focus on indicaters," R.M. Goertzen, R.E. Scherr, and A. Elby, Submitted to : Physical Review Special Topics: Physics Education Research.

"Indicators of Understanding: What TAs listen for in student responses," Goertzen, R.M., Scherr, R.E., & Elby, A.(2008). PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1064, pp. 119-122 (2008)

"Accounting for tutorial teaching assistants' buy-in," AAPT Winter 2009 Poster, Chicago, IL.

"Learning about physics graduate student TAs using case studies," Goertzen, R.M., Scherr, R.E., & Elby, A.(2007). AAPT Summer 2008 Poster, Greensboro, NC.

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Suggestions for beginning videotaping in the classroom

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