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Unfortunate Outcomes of a “Funny” Physics Problem: Some Eye–Opening YouTube Comments (with Josip Slisko), The Physics Teacher (2011)

The impressions we make as instructors of physics can affect student learning and public perception...

 

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Radical Constructivism Has an Answer - But This Answer Is not an Easy One, Constructivist Foundations (2010)

>Context • In spite of its advantages and its ability to make valid responses to...

 

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What Can We Learn from the Misunderstandings of Radical Constructivism?: Commentary on Slezak’s “Radical Constructivism: Epistemology, Education and Dynamite”, Constructivist Foundations (2010)

>Problem • What alternative strategies from our experiences using a Piaget-based radical constructivist pedagogy might...

 

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Conceptual Development About Motion and Force in Elementary and Middle School Students (with Dale R. Sweet), American Journal of Physics (2009)

Methods of physics education research were applied to find what kinds of changes in 4th,...

 

Physics Classroom Engagement: Constructing Understanding in Real Time, Latin American Journal of Physics Education (2008)

The dismal results of standard physics teaching found in the research in physics education are...

 

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Put Another Way…, Constructivist Foundations (2008)
 

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“Once more into the breech…”, Constructivist Foundations (2007)
 

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The Challenge of Understanding Radical Constructivism, Constructivist Foundations (2007)

Purpose: This contribution to the Festschrift honoring Ernst von Glasersfeld gives some insight into the...

 

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Against Realist Instruction: Superficial Success Masking Catastrophic Failure and an Alternative, Constructivist Foundations (2005)

Purpose: Often radical constructivists are confronted with arguments why radical constructivism is wrong. The present...

 

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Radical, Getting to the Root: A Review of Curriculum Dynamics: Recreating Heart, Journal of Curriculum Studies (2004)
 

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How We Think About and Prepare to Teach Physics, Physics Education Research Conference (2004)

We have been preparing physics teachers in the same manner for many decades. Yet, physics...

 

A Constructivist Education, Conceptual Change, and the Role of Technology, Methodologia (1991)

A constructivist interpretation of the learning process has been supported by research on students conceptions...

 

Using Knowledge Representation to Study Conceptual Change in Students for Teaching Physics (with C. Franklin Boyle and Ira A. Monarch), Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (1990)
 

Science Education in Elementary School: Some Observations, Journal of Research in Science Teaching (1986)

As one whose classroom teaching experience consists of ninth grade physical science through upper division...

 

Cross-Disciplinary Course on Teaching for GTAs (with John I. Gelder), Journal of College Science Teaching (1982)
 

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A Learning Cycle on Exponential Growth and the Energy Crises, The Physics Teacher (1982)

For the past several years Professor A. A. Bartlett has been pointing out the conflict...

 

Books

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College Teaching and the Development of Reasoning (with Robert G. Fuller, Thomas C. Campbell, and Scott M. Stevens) (2009)

This book is intended to offer college faculty members the insights of the development of...

 

Contributions to Books

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Science Education, Knowledge & Power in the Global Economy: The Effects of School Reform in a Neoliberal/Neoconservative Age (2008)
 

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Teaching Introductory Physics to College Students, Constructivism: Theory, Perspectives, and Practice (2005)
 

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Teaching Introductory Physics to College Students, Constructivism : Theory, Perspectives, and Practice (1996)
 

Unpublished Papers

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Why Teach Kinematics? An Examination of the Teaching of Kinematics and Force I (2002)
 

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Why Teach Kinematics? An Examination of the Teaching of Kinematics and Force II (2002)
 

Selected Invited Presentations

Preparing Future Generations: A Bit With Some Promise, Winter Meeting, American Association of Physics Teachers (2011)
 

Physics Teaching and the Development of Reasoning, Idaho State University, Physics Department Colloquium (2010)
 

Research in Physics Learning, Science Café for Discovery Center of Idaho (2010)
 

Physics Teaching and the Development of Reasoning, XVIII International Workshop on New Trends in Physics Teaching (2010)