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Author(s)	Title	Reference	PDF	HTML	Abstract
Papers   (Jump to Talks presented by R. Scherr)
E. F. Redish, R. E. Scherr, and J. Tuminaro	Reverse Engineering the Solution of a "Simple" Physics Problem: Why learning physics is harder than it looks	preprint
R. Scherr   and E. Redish	Newton's zeroth law:  Learning from listening to our students	The Physics Teacher in Press
D. Hammer, A. Elby, R. Scherr, and E. F. Redish	Resources, Framing, and Transfer	to be published in Transfer of Learning: Research and Perspectives , J. Mestre, Ed., (Information Age Publishing, 2004)
R. Scherr	Modeling student reasoning:  An example from special relativity	Submitted to American Journal of Physics, November 2003
R. Scherr	Gestures as evidence of student thinking in physics	Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings,  August 2003
R. Scherr	An implementation of Physics by Inquiry in a large-enrollment class	Physics Teacher 41(2), 113-118, February 2003
R. Scherr, P. Shaffer and S. Vokos	The challenge of changing deeply-held student beliefs about the relativity of simultaneity	American Journal of Physics 70(12), pp. 1238-1248, December 2002
R. Scherr and M. Wittmann	Epistemology mediating conceptual knowledge: Constraints on data accessible from interviews	Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings,  August 2002
R. Scherr and M. Wittmann	The challenge of listening: The effect of researcher agenda on data collection and interpretation	Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings,  August 2002
R. Scherr, P. Shaffer and S. Vokos	Student understanding of time in special relativity: Simultaneity and reference frames	Phys. Educ. Res., Am. J. Phys. Suppl. 69, S24-S35, July 2001
L. McDermott, P. Shaffer, and UW-PEG	Tutorials in Introductory Physics, First Edition (Contributions)	Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002
L. McDermott and UW-PEG	Physics by Inquiry, Volumes I & II (Contributions)	John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1996
Talks   (Return to top)
J. Tuminaro, E. F. Redish, and R. Scherr	Two kinds of student mathematical errors in physics: A theoretical perspective	Contributed talk presented at AAPT National Meeting, Miami Beach, Flordia, January 28,2004
R. Scherr and J. Tuminaro	Student patterns of knowledge construction	Contributed talk presented at AAPT National Meeting, Miami Beach, Flordia, January 2004
D. Hammer  and R. Scherr	An epistemological intervention with big results	Contributed talk presented at AAPT National Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, August 2003
R. Scherr	Gestures as evidence of student thinking about physics	Invited talk presented at International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi," Varenna, Italy, July 2003
R. Scherr	Gestures as evidence of student thinking about physics	Seminar presented to the Physics Education Research Group at The Ohio State University, March 3, 2003
R. Scherr	Questioning the questions: Playing with constraints in physics education research	Invited talk presented at AAPT National Meeting, Austin, Texas, January 14, 2003
R. Scherr and M. Wittmann	The challenge of listening: Selective attention in clinical interveiws	Invited talk presented at AAPT National Meeting, Austin, Texas, January 13, 2003
M. Wittmann and R. Scherr	Epistemology mediating conceptual knowledge: Constraints on data accessible from interviews	Invited talk presented at AAPT National Meeting, Austin, Texas, January 13, 2003
N. Gillespie, M. Wittmann, and R. Scherr	The negotiation of relevance: Student inference in clinical interviews	Invited talk presented at AAPT National Meeting, Austin, Texas, January 13, 2003
R. Scherr, A. Elby, and S. Snowman	Epistemological considerations in analogical modeling labs	Contributed talk presented at AAPT Summer National Meeting, Boise, Idaho, August 5, 2002
R. Scherr and M. Wittman	The challenge of listening: An individual student interview about current flow	Contributed talk presented at 2002 summer conference on Integrating Science and Mathematics Education Research into Teaching, June 25, 2002
R. Scherr	Modeling student reasoning in physics: An example from special relativity	Colloquium presented at the University of Maine, May 10, 2002
R. Scherr	Coordinating theoretical models of student reasoning with evidence: An example from special relativity	Invited talk presented at AAPT National Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 22, 2002
R. Scherr	An implementation of Physics by Inquiry in a large-enrollment class	Invited talk presented at AAPT National Meeting, Rochester, New York, July 22, 2001
R. Scherr	An investigation of student understanding of basic concepts in special relativity: Simultaneity and reference frames	Ph.D. Final Exam presented at University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, December 2000
R. Scherr, S. Vokos, P. Shaffer and L. McDermott	The multi-layered nature of student difficulties: An example from special relativity	Contributed talk presented at AAPT National Meeting, Guelph, Ontario, August 2000
R. Scherr, S. Vokos, P. Shaffer and L. McDermott	Identifying student difficulties with measurement in special relativity: Measuring the time of an event	Contributed talk presented at AAPT National Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, August 1999
R. Scherr, S. Vokos, P. Shaffer and L. McDermott	Applying the results of research to curriculum development in Galilean and special relativity	Contributed talk presented at APS Regional Meeting, Eugene, Oregon, May 1999
R. Scherr, S. Vokos, P. Shaffer and L. McDermott	Identifying and addressing student difficulties in Galilean and special relativity: Length and length contraction	Contributed talk presented at APS Centennial Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1999
R. Scherr, A. Boudreaux, S. Vokos, and L. McDermott	Identifying and addressing student difficulties in Galilean and special relativity: Simultaneity	Contributed talk presented at AAPT National Meeting, Lincoln, Nebraska, August 1998
Posters   (Return to top)
R. Scherr	Gestures as evidence of student thinking about physics	Contributed poster presented at AAPT National Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, August 2003
R. Scherr	Modeling student reasoning in physics: An example from special relativity	Contributed poster presented at AAPT National Meeting, Boise, Idaho, August 2002		full size (2592x3456) smaller (1000x1333)
R. Scherr and M. Wittmann	The challenge of listening: The effect of researcher agenda on data collection and interpretation	Contributed poster presented at AAPT National Meeting, Boise, Idaho, August 2002		full size (2160x2880) smaller (1000x1333)
M. Wittmann and R. Scherr	Epistemology mediating conceptual knowledge: Constraints on data accessible from interviews	Contributed poster presented at AAPT National Meeting, Boise, Idaho, August 2002		full size (2160x2880) smaller (1000x1333)
R. Scherr and M. Wittmann	The challenge of listening: An individual student interview about current flow	Contributed poster presented at 2002 conference on Integrating Science and Mathematics Education Research into Teaching, June 2002		full size (2160x2880) smaller (1000x1333)
R. Scherr, S. Vokos, P. Shaffer and L.C. McDermott	The multi-layered nature of student difficulties: An example from special relativity	Contributed poster presented at AAPT National Meeting, Guelph, Ontario, August 2000		full size (2160x1440) smaller (975x650)
Dissertation   (Return to top)
R. Scherr	An investigation of student understanding of basic concepts in special relativity	Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Physics, University of Washington, March 2001

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