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American Association of Physics Teachers
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SM18: A Research Experience-based Measurement Laboratory Course
Universities can offer a science-based research experience to only a limited number of undergraduate students. We have started a one- semester lecture...View more
SM18: An Agency by Design Framework for Physics Labs and Lessons
Agency by Design (AbD) is a research initiative to investigate the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker-centered learning. At Washington Inter...View more
SM18: Daily Homework: A Study-Skills Strategy
Often in science courses homework problems are assigned in block sets that represent content throughout a topic. Students are encouraged to look over ...View more
AAPT Member Spotlight
Meet Jackie
I joined AAPT in 2002, as a freshman physics major. At that time, I considered physics to be my pathway into medical school; I didn’t see my future in physics teaching. But, my physics advisor, Robert Fenstermacher at Drew University, suggested new Society of Physics Student members select AAPT for our free secondary membership, so I signed up.Over the next several years of my undergraduate physics program, I became less focused on a medical career and more interested in the parallels I saw between my deepening interests in physics and sociology and their disciplinary focuses on using observations to build models.
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