Title

Alignment Of Tas' Beliefs With Practice And Student Perception

Keywords

graduate students; physics education research; teaching assistants

Abstract

Graduate teaching assistants (TAs) play an important role in introductory physics courses, particularly in large enrollment courses where the TA may be viewed as more approachable and accessible than the lecture instructor. Thus, while TAs may still be in the process of developing their views on teaching physics, their practices directly influence a large number of introductory students. As the first steps in reforming our introductory courses and TA training program, we collected multiple types of data on TAs teaching in traditional algebra-based physics laboratories. Drawing on prior work on TAs' pedagogical knowledge, we explore how the beliefs expressed by TAs in interviews align with their practices during a laboratory video-Taped mid-semester. Additionally, we explore how both the TAs' expressed beliefs and practices align with students' responses to an end-of-semester TA evaluation survey.

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Publication Title

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volume

1513

Number of Pages

98-101

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4789661

Socpus ID

85029285658 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85029285658

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