Being explicit about the choice and influence of theoretical constructs in research

BUTELER, LAURA; COLEONI, ENRIQUE A.; LINDER, CEDRIC; PODOLEVSKY, NOAH; RUSS, ROSEMARY

Bar Harbour, Maine

Conferencia; 2009 Foundations and Frontiers of Physics Education Research; 2009

University of Maine

Presenters give 15 minute talks about their research, the focus of which will be on the researcher´s choice (either implicit or explicit) of theoretical construct and how that choice influences their data collection or analysis. The talks will be followed by a roundtable discussion in which the presenters will discuss one another´s work and comment on differences in interpretation that arise from different theoretical assumptions.