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Demonstrations - A Professional Development Recipe for Success
Feature Summary Physics Boot Camp & Interactive Lecture
Demonstrations - This workshop was presented at the 2011 PhysTEC
conference. Interactive Lecture Demonstrations (ILDs) provide a
pedagogical tool that has been shown to improve college and pre-
college student's conceptual understanding of ideas in classical
physics. Teachers in this PD showed fractional gains in concept
understanding ranging from .44 to .75 with participants in every
comparison group showing strong gains. Just as encouraging,
these gains showed no decay over time. In this highly
interactive presentation findings were presented along with a
model of how the Interactive Lecture Demonstration 8-step
methodology is used as a tool to both engage and prepare
teachers. - June 9, 2011 - July 9, 2014