Guide
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Notes
on Section J Relating to research case studies
The main aims of this section
are:
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To consider some examples
of case studies and to
relate these to the general findings of the research on teachers’
transformations.
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To review their own
experience and compare it with
the case study material.
Notes on the activity follow:
In this activity, teachers
move from simplified accounts
of issues found in the research (the ‘stories’) to looking at actual
case
studies. Activity Resource 1
describes two
case studies of teachers using spreadsheets to model capacitor
discharge.
In order to understand what these teachers are doing, it is very
helpful
if teachers have worked with the capacitor discharge model in Activity
B5. Briefing Sheet 5
gives a commentary
about the research findings in general arising from the STTIS research
on these case studies. This forms useful background reading related to
the questions raised in the activity.
Also in this
activity, teachers consider the ‘dimensions
of analysis’ used in the research on teachers’ transformations (Activity
Resource 2) and relate these to their own experience and to
the case
study work.. These dimensions relate to the work on all of the
curriculum
innovations studied by STTIS. Briefing Sheet 6 ‘Dimensions of analysis’
reproduces the information in the activity sheet, adding examples about
the computer modelling innovation.
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Teaching with computer models