The Modeling Method has been developed to correct many weaknesses of the traditional lecture-demonstration method, including the fragmentation of knowledge, student passivity, and the persistence of naive beliefs about the physical world.

An interdisciplinary research organization devoted to the study of learning and instruction in the sciences and mathematics. Researchers perform cognitive research and apply it to the development of curricula to teach science and mathematics concepts and problem solving skills. SRRI is located at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

PER department within North Carolina State University. Provides links for further information on the subject.

PER at U of Washington

Information about researchers and their projects.

Describes the work being done by the Physics Education Research Group (PERG) at the U of Maryland. There are also many resources for physics teachers and physics education researchers.

Kansas State University has one of the oldest active physics education research programs in the US.  The Physics Education Group investigates how students learn and understand physics and develops ways to improve the learning and teaching of physics. Program is headed by Dean Zollman.

Description of the program plus links to other PER groups and information.

PER at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Our website provides perspectives on pedagogy, educational research results, applications to teaching, and curriculum materials.

Research in physics education focuses the attention of the physicist on aspects of the processes of teaching and learning physics. Research topics in this field span a broad range, from psychology to computer science.

Guided construction labs featuring hands-and-heads-on experiments in introductory mechanics. Their effectiveness in promoting student crossover to the Newtonian World has been demonstrated by rigorous pre-post testing. SDI is an outgrowth of Richard Hake's research at Indiana U, Bloomington.

An inquiry-based, year long physical science course that engages middle school students in constructing meaningful understanding of important physical science concepts. Extensive hands-on experiences will be complemented by powerful and innovative computer software. The course consists of six units.

Physics Education Research Conference held in tandem with the 2000 summer meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers at the University of Guelph. August 2-3, 2000.

Investigates the ability of students to interpret kinematics graphs, and generates a set of suggestions for faculty teaching the subject.

List includes papers that may be of interest to researchers in physics education and to physics teachers interested in making their classrooms more effective. Papers have been selected that focus on high school or college level physics teaching, though they may occasionally be papers describing work with younger students if they seem relevant. This list includes papers published with calendar dates of 2000.

Research pages and description of Ph.D. program in physics education research.

Talks, papers and favorite quotes and links of Ohio State Professor Dave Van Domelen.

Provides links to U of Minnesota PER research as well as to other PER groups, organizations, and persons of note.

Describes an NSF-sponsored project with a central task to develop improved instructional materials for introductory physics instruction which take advantage of state-of-the-art technology. Links to a 22-page pdf-format paper submitted to the AJP, "American Journal of Physics: Impact of Video Motion Analysis on Kinematics Graph Interpretation Skills."

The Constructing Physics Understanding in a Computer-Supported Learning Environment Project (or the CPU Project) is aimed at creating laboratory and computer-based materials to support a learning environment where students take primary responsibility for developing valid and robust knowledge in physics.

Projects, publications, people, and related links.

Develops curricula, activities, and computer tools which allow students to participate actively in their own learning and to construct scientific knowledge for themselves. Using these materials the students learn directly from the physical world.

The Department emphasizes physics pedagogy and teacher education, and offers several programs within the department to allow graduate students to receive essential teacher training for physics education at the college or secondary school levels.

Dedicated to investigating and documenting significant issues and challenges in the education of physics teacher candidates. With a focus on the scholarship of teaching, the journal seeks to generate discussion and promulgate sustainable, long-term changes in educational research, policy and practice.

Tools, people, projects, grants, seminars, and links.

Physics Education Research Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Physics ecuation projects are primarily concerned with the teaching and learning of physics at the tertiary, secondary (Years 7-12) and primary levels (Years K-6).

Information for prospective graduate students in PER, a description of research, information about group members, papers, a description of the physics education reforms being implemented at CU, a page specifically for graduate TA's, and links to other education groups.

Graduate Group in Science and Mathematics Education (SESAME).