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Ian SeftonHonorary Research Associate
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Background:
- Tertiary physics teacher for 33 years, now retired.
- Former lives include exploration geophysicist and interests in speleology & computer science.
Research interests:
- Do students who study both physics and biology wear different hats?
- Analysis of the structure of canonical physics knowledge as presented in text books, the implications of that structure for learning and curriculum development and proposals for change, including techniques for restructuring the knowledge.
- A study of innovations in assessment and their effects on performance.
- A Hypercard-based system for student records.
- How students learn and understand physics, which includes conceptual understanding (conceptions, misconceptions and all that stuff), students' views about the nature of learning, students' and physicists' views about the nature of physics knowledge and what it means to understand physics.
- Barriers to understanding physics: their nature and ways of overcoming them.
- Theory and practice of assessment in physics courses.
- Cooperative and self-directed learning.
- Stirring the possum.
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