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FFPER

Bar Harbor ME, June 14-20, 2015

Application due December 1, 2014

AAPT Summer Meeting

College Park!!!, July 25-29, 2015

Abstracts due February 25, 2015

• Talks
• Conference on Laboratory Instruction Beyond the First Year
• Chandra Turpen, Thinking of Laboratory Experiences as Mentoring Opportunities
• Monday 2 pm, The Art and Science of Teaching
• Joe Redish, Teaching Physics Standing on Your Head
• Monday 4 pm, Introductory Labs/Apparatus
• Kim Moore, Analyzing the NEXUS/Physics Laboratory Curriculum at UMD and Beyond
• Monday 4 pm, PER: Identity and Student Engagement
• Gina Quan, How Undergraduate Research Experiences Support More Central Participation in Physics
• Vijay Kaul, Research and Development of PhET Simulation Based Physics Tutorials
• Tuesday 8:30 am, Bringing Physics to Life
• Wolfgang Losert, Physics of Cell Migration and Collective Behavior
• Tuesday 8:30 am, PER: Diverse Investigations II
• Chandra Turpen, Assessing the Maryland Learning Assistant Program
• Ayush Gupta, Students' Reasoning about the Responsibilities of Scientists and Engineers
• Alice Olmstead, Researching Ourselves: How Are We Helping Faculty To Change Their Teaching?
• Tuesday 1:30 pm, PER: Examining Content Understanding and Reasoning II
• Erin Sohr, “Because Math”: Epistemological Stance or Defusing Social Tension in QM?
• Ben Dreyfus, “Classical-ish”: Negotiating the Boundary Between Classical and Quantum Particles
• Wednesday 8:30 am, Effecting Change Using PER
• Andy Elby, Trade-offs in Pursuing PER-inspired Versus Traditional Goals in Introductory Physics
• Wednesday 1:30 pm, Professional Skills for Graduate Students
• Andy Elby, Affordances and Limitations of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
• Posters     
• Tuesday 9:30 am, Bringing Physics to Life
• Kim Moore, Successes and Challenges in Scaling-up NEXUS/Physics Labs: UMD and Beyond
• Tuesday 5 pm
• Ben Dreyfus, “Classical-ish”: Negotiating the Boundary Between Classical and Quantum Particles
• Alice Olmstead, Researching Ourselves: How Are We Helping Faculty To Change Their Teaching?
• Erin Sohr, “Because Math”: Epistemological Stance or Defusing Social Tension in QM?
• Chandra Turpen, Assessing the Maryland Learning Assistant Program
• Workshops
• Saturday
• Joe Redish, Research-based Reforms to Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences
• Sunday
• Kim Moore, NEXUS Physics Labs for Biology Students
• Gina Quan (co-organizer),  Facilitating Student Self-reflection & Personalized Instructor Feedback 

PERC

College Park!!!, July 29-30, 2015

Parallel session abstracts due March 18, 2015; contributed poster abstracts due June 12, 2015.

Papers due July 1

• Contributed posters
• Wednesday night
• Ben Dreyfus, “Classical-ish”: Negotiating the Boundary between Classical and Quantum Particles
• Alice Olmstead, Researching ourselves: How are we helping faculty to change their teaching?
• Thursday morning
• Deborah Hemingway, How an educator characterizes scientific domains and disciplinary relationships: A case of change
• Vijay Kaul, Research and Development of PhET Simulation-based Physics Tutorials
• Kim Moore, Successes and Challenges in Scaling-up NEXUS/Physics Labs: UMD and Beyond
• Gina Quan, Connecting Self-Efficacy and Nature of Science Shifts in Undergraduate Research Experiences
• Erin Sohr, “Because math”: Epistemological stance or defusing social tension in quantum mechanics?
• Chandra Turpen, Assessing the Maryland Learning Assistant Program
• Parallel sessions
• Ayush Gupta & Andy Elby (organizers), Examining metacognition and epistemology in introductory labs: Video Workshop
• Gina Quan & Chandra Turpen (organizers), Bridging educational research and practice: Supporting undergraduate research experiences in physics
• Andy Elby (discussant), Student learning with PhET simulations: Beyond conceptual gains in classroom settings
• Vijay Kaul, Framings of PhET manipulations: Investigating mechanism vs. confirming answers

ICPE

Beijing, August 10-14, 2015

Abstracts due February 28 or May 15

APS Mid-Atlantic Section

Morgantown, WV, October 23-25, 2015

Abstracts due September 18

AAPT Winter Meeting

New Orleans, January 9-12, 2016

APS March Meeting

Baltimore, March 14-18, 2016

AERA

Washington, DC, April 8-12, 2016

Paper and session submissions due July 22, 2015

NARST

Baltimore, April 14-17, 2016

APS April Meeting

Salt Lake City, April 16-19, 2016

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