Thursday, December 1, 2011

Re: PER Review Article? #2

Some blog followers might be interested in “Re: PER Review Article? #2” [Hake (2011)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: Phys-L’s David Craig asked (paraphrasing) “Any suggestions for recent review articles on the current state and efficacy of Physics Education Research (PER)?” Both Phys-L’s Dean Zollman and PhysLrnR’s Jennifer Docktor recommended “A Synthesis of Discipline-Based Education Research in Physics” [Dockter & Mestre (2011)] at http://bit.ly/fOQWrc. In addition Docktor pointed to:

(1) Karen Cummings’ (2011) review “A Developmental History of Physics Education Research” at http://bit.ly/u9nwaS.

(2) Papers other than by Docktor & Mestre and Cummings, but also written at the request of the National Academies' Board On Science Education http://bit.ly/w40Qgd, meeting of 2 October, for EDUCATION RESEARCH IN CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND GEOSCIENCE at http://bit.ly/rJJYCr .

(3) “Status, Contributions, and Future Direction of Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER)” [National Academies (2011) at http://bit.ly/uEw0uJ.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands
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REFERENCES [URL shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 1 Dec 2011.]
Hake, R.R. 2011. “Re: PER Review Article? #2” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/tkmXe0. Post of 1 Dec 2011 15:54:48-0800 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.

3 comments:

Bud_T said...

Here is another article which should be listed among these, as it includes many PER innovations in the meta-analysis. "Impact of Undergraduate Science Course Innovations on Learning" Maria Araceli Ruiz-Primo, Derek Briggs, Heidi Iverson, Robert Talbot, and Lorrie A. Shepard. Science 11 March 2011:
Vol. 331 no. 6022 pp. 1269-1270
DOI: 10.1126/science.1198976

Richard Hake said...

Bud,

Thanks for alerting me to "Impact of Undergraduate Science Course Innovations on Learning" [Ruiz-Primo et al. (2011)].

I had been unaware of that article. I suggest that you widen its audience by committing it to the OPEN literature. That could easily be done by e.g., placing it at Ruiz-Primo's website .

Such placement would, of course, be in compliance of the Fair Use provisions of US Copyright Law - see Sections 107 and 108. See e.g., Cornell University Law School information for Sect. 107 at and Sect. 108 at .

In the meantime, perhaps you might consider sending me copy so I can find out what it’s about.

Richard Hake

REFERENCES
Ruiz-Primo, M.A., D. Briggs, H. Iverson, R. Talbot, & L.A. Shepard. 2011. "Impact of Undergraduate Science Course Innovations on Learning," Science 331(6022): 1269-1270: online to subscribers at ; an abstract is online at . Online supporting material is online as a 242 kB pdf at .

Richard Hake said...

In my response to Bud_T I wrote:

"Such placement would, of course, be in compliance of the Fair Use provisions of US Copyright Law - see Sections 107 and 108. See e.g., Cornell University Law School information for Sect. 107 at and Sect. 108 at ."

The missing URLs are http://bit.ly/eNseEp and http://bit.ly/qyWm2Y . I'm an HTML dummy, so if you're interested you'll have to copy and paste those URL's into your browser widow