Mazur, Eric, 1954-

Peer instruction : a user's manual / Eric Mazur. - Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1997. - xv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 computer disc (4 3/4 in.) - Prentice Hall series in educational innovation .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I: Overview
Introduction
Peer instruction
Motivating the students
A step-by-step guide to preparing for a peer instruction lecture
Sample lecture
Epilogue
II: Resources
Force concept inventory
Mechanics baseline test
Questionnaire results
Reading quizzes
Conceptests
Conceptual exam questions

Mazur shows teachers how to teach students of physics that they can understand memorization as a different alternative to mathematics. He describes interactive teaching, including different types of lecturing and group study, as a method of teaching physics

0135654416 9780135654415

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Physics--Study and teaching (Higher)
Física--Estudio y enseñanza
Peer teaching.
Enseñanza en parejas

QC 30 / M476p 1997

530/.071