Research and projects:
Adaptation and Implementation of Reformed
Courses
There are many examples of institutions that
have initiated successful curricular reforms. What factors
determine the feasibility of implementing the course at
other institutions? How do we characterize a secondary
implementation's success? I am interested these questions,
particularly in the context of CSUSM's Physics 205 course,
which I adapted from UC Davis' Physics 7 course (developed
by Wendell Potter, myself, and others). This work has been
supported by
Students' use of representations
I am interested in
how introductory physics students use graphical, symbolic,
and diagrammatic representations in problem solving.
Tablet PCs as digital whiteboards
This project
compares Tablet PCs and whiteboards for small group problem
solving. More on this project is
here.
