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Instructors Ideas about Problem Solving Setting Goals

Source: groups.physics.umn.edu
Topic: Problem Solving

Sort Desciption: solving. All faculty have problem solving as a major goal for their course. ... Solve problems using general quantitative problem solving skills ...

Content Inside: From: Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference Rochester NY July 2001 Instructors Ideas about Problem Solving Setting Goals Charles Henderson* Kenneth Heller* Patricia Heller* Vince H. Kuo* Edit Yerushalmi* *Physics Education Research Group University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN Weizmann Institute Rehovot Israel This paper presents preliminary hypotheses about the relationship between faculty goals for the introductory calculus-based physics course and their beliefs about student learning of problem solving. All faculty have problem solving as a major goal for their course. There appears to be however an instructional paradox. When discussing how students learn to solve problems in their own courses faculty indicate that reflective-practice skills are a necessary prerequisite and that average students enter the course with these skills. When discussing general problem solving skills however faculty seem to believe that similar reflective-practice skills cannot be learned in an introductory physics course and should be a long-term goal of university education. Introduction This is the third paper in a series of three describing an interview study designed to formulate hypotheses about how physics faculty view the teaching and learning of problem solving in the introductory calculus-based course. The first paper 1 focused on grading and describes both the interview and the selection of the faculty sample. The second paper 2 presents hypotheses about faculty beliefs of how students learn problem solving. This paper describes the course goals for all 30 faculty interviewed. It also presents hypotheses about: (1) the relationship between faculty goals and their beliefs about how students learn for six research university faculty; and (2) which students these faculty expect will meet their goals. Goals Survey Prior to being interviewed faculty members were asked to complete a written "Goals Survey". This survey listed 16 possible ...

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