27 September 2010 to 1 October 2010
CSIR Convention Centre
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

Investigating the Teaching and Learning of Problem Solving in Physics at School and University Level

Not scheduled
CSIR Convention Centre

CSIR Convention Centre

CSIR, Pretoria
Presentation Track E - Physics Education

Speaker

Mr Douglas Clerk (School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand)

Description

In this study we report that while test scores continue to indicate that students’ creative problem solving ability lags their ability to perform routine exercises, preliminary data suggest that instructors at both high school level and at university level are perhaps simply not teaching their students creative problem solving.

Primary author

Mr Douglas Clerk (School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand)

Co-author

Dr Deena Naidoo (University of the Witwatersrand)

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