Improving the Learning and Teaching of Science Through Discipline-Based Education Research: A View from Physics
Lillian C. McDermott, Professor of Physics at the UW and recipient of the 2014 University Faculty Lecture Award speaks at the annual University Faculty Lecture, February 19, 2015 at UW's Kane Hall. The Physics Education Group in the UW Department of Physics has been conducting research in physics education since the 1970s. The goal is to identify and address the intellectual challenges that physics presents to university students, including prospective and practicing K–12 teachers. The results guide development of research-based and research-validated instructional materials to improve conceptual understanding and reasoning ability from kindergarten through graduate school. A commentary on the termination of the anti-nepotism policy at UW in 1972 precedes a few examples of our group’s research and a summary of our progress.
Lillian C. McDermott, professor and Director of the Physics Education Group, UW
Ana Mari Cauce, provost, UW
02/24/2015
http://www.washington.edu/facultystaff/awards/2015-university-faculty-lecture
http://uwtv.org
