Topic:How Discipline-Based Educational Research Informs Physics Teaching and Learning

Reporter: Prof. Dean Zollman

Time: 14:00 pm, May 27, 2019

Location: 504 Lecture Hall, Life Science Building

Hosted by: Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics College of Physics

Introduction:

Dean Zollman is the University Distinguished Professor & University Distinguished Teaching Scholar of Kansas State University. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in University of Maryland, College Park in the major of Theoretical Nuclear Physics, 1970. He has been awarded by tens  of awards for his research in teaching, including AAPT Robert A. Millikan Medal and American Association of Physics Teachers Oersted Medal. He has published more than 120 journal papers and more than 20 textbooks and book chapters.

Abstract:

Subject-based education research is a relatively new research direction, focusing on: how people learn concepts, exercises, and ways of thinking; understand the nature of the subject and develop professional knowledge of the subject; help determine and measure appropriate learning goals and teaching methods, Promote students to achieve these goals, etc.