Improving how universities teach science : lessons from the Science Education Initiative / Carl Wiem...
Improving how universities teach science : lessons from the Science Education Initiative / Carl Wiem...
Improving how universities teach science : lessons from the Science Education Initiative / Carl Wieman.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
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G 2017/3005
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English
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Physical content
265 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction -- 1. The vision -- 2. The SEI model of achieving change -- 3. The process of making change -- 4. Science education specialists: agents of change -- 5. What was achieved and what we learned -- 6. The post-mortem: What worked, what didn't and why -- Coda -- Appendix 1: SEI course transfo...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
Too many universities remain wedded to outmoded ways of teaching science in spite of extensive research showing that there are much more effective methods. Too few departments ask whether what happens in their lecture halls is effective at helping students to learn and how they can encourage their faculty to teach better. But real change is possibl...
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Improving how universities teach science : lessons from the Science Education Initiative / Carl Wieman.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2017
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G 2017/3005
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74VKVLLVbarO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVLLVbarO
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ISBN
0674972074 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780674972070 hardcover ; alkaline paper
DDC
507.11
MMS ID
991024109615602626
