Teaching Physics: Figuring out What Works

JAN 01, 1999

Research on three questions is improving instruction: What is involved in understanding physics? What do students bring to physics classes? How do they respond to what they are taught?

DOI: 10.1063/1.882568

Edward F. Redish

Richard N. Steinberg

Physics faculty members often come away from teaching college‐level introductory courses deeply dismayed about how little their students have learned. The growing importance of having a workforce that is literate in science and technology makes this situation more than an academic problem.

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More about the Authors

Edward F. Redish. University of Maryland, College Park.

Richard N. Steinberg. University of Maryland, College Park.