Activity-Based Tutorials

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Understanding How Students Learn | Teacher's Guide

M.C. Wittmann, R.N. Steinberg, E.F. Redish and the University of Maryland Physics Education Research Group

Teacher's Guide

Using Pretests
Interactions in the Classroom
Testing What is Learned

Teacher's Guide

Evaluating Students

To emphasize the importance of conceptual understanding, one question on every examination comes directly from material emphasized in tutorial. Other questions focus on skills developed in the essay questions (e.g. relating phenomena to real-world examples). By testing those elements that we use in class, we emphasize their importance to students.

The instructional materials described above can be found in the Classroom Materials section of this CD. A complete summary organized by topic can be found here.