FYS3810 – Physics Education Research and Practice

Course content

The course gives an introduction to physics education research and practice, focusing on teaching, students' relation to the subject, and how physics teachers specifically can work on motivating and helping students to understand different areas of physics. The course also looks at physics as a science discipline and its relation to society.

Learning outcome

After completing this course, you:

  • are familiar with physics education as an academic field and with central concepts and terminology, and?be able to discuss the position of physics in school, educational system, and society,?
  • are able to discuss the nature of physics and give examples from its historical development.
  • can describe learning theory relevant to learning physics and natural science, including the role of language in the learning process
  • can develop and evaluate research-based teaching in physics and give reasons for choices of topic content and teaching approaches.
  • can discuss the role of experimental work, inquiry approaches, modeling, and programming of?digital tools in physics teaching, and master experiments and equipment that are central to school physics
  • can extract useful information from research texts in physics education and critically assess such texts.
  • can reflect on the role of physics in society, for instance with reference to challenges within energy, climate, and health.

Admission to the course

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for?in Studentweb.

This course is not available for single course students.

A minimum of 60 ECTS within physics and astronomy.

Overlapping courses

Teaching

The course extends over a full semester with 5 hours of teaching per week, 75 hours in total per semester. The teaching includes:

  • Lectures
  • Laboratory exercises
  • Group work

Considering the time we spend?on theory, group work, and discussions, and laboratory exercises, the teaching will be flexible.

  • This course has 3 mandatory laboratory reports that must be submitted and approved before you can take the final exam.
  • Attendance of minimum 60 % is mandatory; absence of more than 40 % requires medical documentation or must be specifically clarified with the course administration

As?the?teaching involves laboratory and/or fieldwork, you should consider taking out a separate travel and personal risk insurance.?Read about your insurance cover as a student.

Examination

  • Final oral exam, possibly including?a practical experiment, which counts 100 % towards the final grade.

3 mandatory laboratory?reports must be submitted and approved before you can take the final exam.

It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses: FYS4810 – Physics Education Research and Practice

Examination support material

30 minutes preparation time with all available support material. No support material during the exam.

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

Resit an examination

Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a?postponed exam?at the beginning of the next semester.

New examinations?are offered at the beginning of the next semester for students who do not successfully complete the exam during the previous semester.

We do not offer a re-scheduled exam for students who withdraw during the exam.

More about examinations at UiO

You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.

Last updated from FS (Common Student System) Dec. 25, 2024 7:49:19 PM

Facts about this course

Level
Bachelor
Credits
10
Teaching
Spring
Examination
Spring
Teaching language
Norwegian

Contact

Department of Physics