PER Resources
Five Easy Lessons - Randall Knight - strategies for effective instruction (Amazon)
Sensemaking TIPERS for Introductory Physics - more tasks, originally geared towards the high school population, but also for the college introductory course. (Amazon)
Ranking Tasks - a collection of a ranking tasks for students of all levels of physics
E&M TIPERs - Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research; a collection of ranking tasks, working backwards tasks, qualitative reasoning tasks, etc. all related to electricity and magnetism
Newtonian TIPERs - more tasks, this time related to mechanics
Peer Instruction - Eric Mazur: a method for interactive engagement and student discussion.
Teaching Introductory Physics - Arnold Arons - a classic with a good discussion of misconceptions and some good conceptual homework problems.
Using Ranking Tasks in the AP Classroom - AP Central Article
Complete Curricula/Programs
Modeling Instruction - A PER-based program for high school physics classes; highly effective (AMTA)
Activity-Based Physics Suite - A collection of lab-based curricula focused on learning by doing; higher tech, computer -based data collection
ISLE Physics - strategies to empower students to learn and discover physics for themselves rather than through lecture
Physics By Inquiry - U Washington PER Group - A series of modules designed to help students learn by doing.
Tutorials In Introductory Physics - U Washington PER Group - Designed to supplement the lectures and labs in an introductory physics course at the college level
On-Line Textbooks
Open Stax - free college Physics book (Algebra-based)
St. Anselm free Calc-based Physics Book - by Jeffrey Schnick
Craig Fletcher On-line Physics C book - a series of PDF files which together are a great, free, on-line text.
Fletcher Conceptual Manual - A source of conceptual questions for many topics of physics
PER Assessments
Normalized (Hake) Gain - a measure of the effectiveness of an instructional program based on pre- and post-test scores
Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation
Instructional Strategies