What is Physics education: Definition and 56 Discussions
Physics education refers to the methods currently used to teach physics. Physics Education Research refers to an area of pedagogical research that seeks to improve those methods. Historically, physics has been taught at the high school and college level primarily by the lecture method together with laboratory exercises aimed at verifying concepts taught in the lectures. These concepts are better understood when lectures are accompanied with demonstration, hand-on experiments, and questions that require students to ponder what will happen in an experiment and why. Students who participate in active learning for example with hands-on experiments learn through self-discovery. By trial and error they learn to change their preconceptions about phenomena in physics and discover the underlying concepts.
Hello,i need some info about Physics college education in USA an UK.
In my country there are 2 different Physics directions (colleges), one is educational Physics and the other is scientific Physics. The first one educates Physics professors (primary and high school) and the other one educates...
Roughly how long does it take to become a medical physicist? I'm currently a third-year nuclear engineering student looking at medical physics, and I'm realizing it's a much different setup than in engineering. Is a residency required? I mean a masters would take like 1.5-2 years, which is...
Hi everyone. I need to decide which way to go with my education soon. My interest are mainly maths, physics and computers.
The thing I could currently see myself work with would be to help create educational software for maths and physics at the level for high school, collage and university...
I am an undergraduate student of phyiscs major. If i want to work on Quantum Gravity then do i need to continue MSc Physics? Or Others like High energy phyiscs or particle physics or Astro?
My aim is to be a teacher at a top University and Research on Quantum Gravity & String theory.
Can you...
Was interested in knowing if there was any place where one could read up on how different schools in the US measure up in physics teachings.
I'm currently studying at Copenhagen University, but i just noticed that they have an exchange program with various schools around the world, including...
Hello, I'm a freshman from New Jersey studying at The University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign. I am studying electrical engineering now, but I am considering studying physics and math.
I enjoy electrical engineering classes, but I am more interested in a research field and physics has...