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ERIC Number: EJ608771
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0045-0855
Improving Understanding in Physics: An Effective Teaching Procedure.
McKittrick, Brian; Mulhall, Pamela; Gunstone, Richard
Australian Science Teachers' Journal, v45 n3 p27-33 Aug 1999
Describes a Conceptual Understanding Procedure (CUP) designed to improve students' understanding of difficult concepts in senior secondary physics. CUPs are based on a constructivist view of learning, target individual students' ideas, and use cooperative learning. Though designed in a physics context, CUPs have equal applicability in other sciences and at other levels. (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Materials, Learning Theories, Physics, Science Education, Secondary Education, Student Needs, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Australia