Science education: Spare me the lecture
Nature 425, 234-236 (18 September 2003)
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v425/n6955/full/425234a.html
Evidence of this failure is provided by assessments such as the Force Concept Inventory (FCI), a multiple-choice test designed to examine students’ understanding of Newton’s laws of mechanics.
http://www.flaguide.org/tools/diagnostic/force_concept_inventory.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Concept_Inventory
Peer Instruction: Ten Years of Experience and Results.
Catherine H. Crouch and Eric Mazur.
Am. J. Phys., 69, 970-977 (2001).
ConceptTests
http://mazur.harvard.edu/education/pi.php
http://mazur.harvard.edu/education/educationmenu.php
sets of qualitative exam questions that rely on understanding a concept rather than simply using physical formulae. His methods have been adopted by physics teachers around the United States and have also been adapted for chemistry, astronomy, geology and mathematics courses.
INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS FOR SCIENCE AND MATH
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/by-level/elementary-school
Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations.
R. R. Hake Am. J. Phys. 66, 64–74; 1998
some newcomers to the field are in danger of wasting their enthusiasm on experimental teaching projects that largely repeat what has gone before. “Does someone need to test peer instruction again? No, we know it works and now we’ve moved on to more sophisticated things,”
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Learning Science Through Computer Games and Simulations
2011
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/13078/learning-science-through-computer-games-and-simulations