Keynote Speaker 1: The scientific approach to teaching: Research as a basis for course design -- 603 -- Plenary
Discussions of teaching – even some publications – abound with anecdotal evidence. Our intuition often supplants a systematic, scientific approach to finding out what works and what doesn't work. Yet, research is increasingly demonstrating that our gut feelings about teaching are often wrong. In this talk I will discuss some research my group has done on gender issues in science courses and on the effectiveness of classroom demonstrations.
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