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« Week of February 25, 2007 »
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25 Experimental Solid State all day N/A	26 Experimental Solid State all day N/A Towards improving physics education: examples of student mathematical and conceptual difficulties in quantum mechanics Start: 2007-02-26 16:00 End: 2007-02-26 18:00 Physics Colloquium Monday 26 February 2007 4:00 pm Weniger 153 Refreshments 3:30 Weniger 305 Towards improving physics education: examples of student mathematical and conceptual difficulties in quantum mechanics Dr. Homeyra Sadaghiani Department of Physics University of Washington Over the past twenty-five years, Physics Education Research (PER) has changed our view of student learning in the traditional introductory courses.	27 Experimental Solid State all day N/A	28 Experimental Solid State all day N/A APS Practice Talks Start: 2007-02-28 16:00 End: 2007-02-28 18:00 n/a	1 Experimental Solid State all day N/A CANCELLED. Communities of Practice in Brazil: An Ethnographic Study of Changes to University Physics Instruction Start: 2007-03-01 16:00 End: 2007-03-01 18:00 CANCELLED.In this talk I examine the impact of bringing instructional methods and models developed in the U.S. to an Introductory Physics course at a Brazilian university. Using participant observation, interviews, and questionnaires, we investigated the influence of cultural context on the effectiveness of teaching. I describe student responses to instructional approaches that were designed to change their	2 Experimental Solid State all day N/A Experimental Optical Start: 2007-03-02 13:00 End: 2007-03-02 15:00 N/A	3 Experimental Solid State all day N/A

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