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Peer Instruction: A User's Manual

Eric Mazur

If You're an Educator

If You're a Student

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Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual is a step-by-step guide for instructors on how to plan and implement Peer Instruction lectures. The teaching methodology is applicable to a variety of introductory science courses (including biology and chemistry). However, the additional material–class-tested, ready-to-use resources, in print and on CD-ROM (so professors can reproduce them as handouts or transparencies)–is intended for calculus-based physics courses.

Features

Contains a step-by-step guide on how to plan Peer Instruction lectures using an instructor's existing lecture materials.

The complete set of class-tested and ready-to-use resources for implementing the method in a one-year introductory physics course includes:
- Two diagnostic tests to evaluate students' understanding of mechanics.
- Student questionnaire handouts to assess students' expectations for the course and to point out misconceptions.
- 44 Reading Quizzes, organized by subject and designed to be given at the beginning of each class to motivate the students to read assigned material before class.
- 243 ConcepTests, multiple-choice questions for use in lecture to engage the students and to assess their understanding.
- 109 Conceptual Examination Questions, organized by major topic for use on exams.

Enclosed CD-ROM contains all of the above materials so they can be reformatted for 8 1/2 X 11 transparentcy and/or hand-out masters.

To complement the material in the book, a continually updated set of additional resources is available on the world-wide web at http://galileo.harvard.edu.
- This server will act as an interactive forum for instructors who are implementing Peer Instruction in their courses. Instructor participation is welcomed!

Author welcomes comments and suggestions via e-mail at "mazur@physics.harvard.edu".

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Mazur

©2013 | Pearson

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ISBN-13:	9780321934451
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Format	Paper Bound w/CD-ROM
ISBN-13:	9780135654415
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Peer Instruction: A User's Manual

If You're an Educator

If You're a Student

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