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

Engaging Students

To bring students into a culture of discussion and reasoning about the physics, we promote a group learning environment where students work on materials developed based on investigations into student learning and effective curriculum design and instruction.

tutorial materials

Tutorials are in-class worksheets guided by the findings of physics education research. Students discuss the physics in groups during class.

classroom interaction

Students are actively doing and discussing physics during class. Interactions occur both between students with no facilitator present, and with the facilitator who probes student thinking among the whole group.

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Student-student interaction

Student-facilitator interaction