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ACTIVE LEARNING COMBINED WITH CLASSROOM RESEARCH: |
AN EFFECTIVE METHOD FOR THE PREPARATION OF PHYSICS TEACHERS AND PHYSICS MAJORS
Procedings of The VII Interamerican Conference on Physics Education
Porto Alegre(Canela) – Brasil –July 3-7, 2000
José R. Lopez
Department of Physics
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
lopez@shuttle.uprm.edu
Deborah Moore
Deprtment of Mathematics
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
moore@shuttle.uprm.edu
Jaydi Aguirrechea
Department of Physics
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
aguirrechea@hotmail.com
Abstract
Currently most universities teach introductory physics using separate lecture and laboratory sessions. Students frequently perceive them as two different courses. In a traditional physics lecture most of the class is devoted to presenting material from the textbook or the professor’s notes. The material is written on the board, and the students take notes. The purpose of the laboratory usually is to corroborate some result or fact previously discussed in the lecture or revealed in the laboratory manual, and many of the laboratory experiments are conducted following “recipe” type instructions. In this article we discuss an alternative to the traditional scenario with results on the effectiveness of this new course.
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