My research uses technology and other means to evaluate the effectiveness of reformed teaching methods and develop reformed teaching curricular materials, and examines how teachers develop into reflective practitioners. My research includes publications and streamed digital video helping teachers to use and assess reformed teaching methods in science instruction.
Less recently at Northern Arizona University I worked on the evaluation of standardized physics conceptual, achievement and attitudinal instruments via paper and web, and developing short activities for students large lecture theatres I call Seat Experiments. I am interested in the use of technology to foster support communities for science and physics teachers, and I am listowner of PHYS-L. I am also involved with bibliographies of topically-related web sites for physics instruction.
My doctorate-level research at Purdue University concentrated on the use of MBL technology in laboratory instruction, and physics education curriculum reform via non-traditional science education research methods such as critical theory based action research. Here is a description of some this kind of physics education research.
