Becoming physics people: Development of integrated physics identity through the Learning Assistant experience
Becoming physics people: Development of integrated physics identity through the Learning Assistant experience
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DOI：
10.1103/physrevphyseducres.12.010109
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发表时间：
2016-02-22
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Close, Hunter G.
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作者：
Close, Eleanor W.;Conn, Jessica;Close, Hunter G.
本文是《培养和支持大学物理教育工作者重点文集》的一部分。在本研究中，我们根据实践共同体和物理认同的现有理论框架分析了德克萨斯州立大学物理学习助理（LA）项目学生的经历，并探讨了这些理论对LA项目采用和适应的影响。物理同一性研究的回归模型表明，物理同一性结构强烈地预测了物理职业的预期选择。我们当前项目的目标是了解参与洛杉矶经历对参与者实践和自我概念的影响的细节，以确定洛杉矶项目结构中积极影响学生物理身份和物理职业意向的关键因素。我们的分析表明，参加LA项目对LA的影响既支持更强的“物理学生”身份，也支持更强的“物理教师”身份，并且这些身份被调和成一个连贯的综合物理身份。在与同龄人、近同龄人和教师的互动中增加舒适感似乎是这种身份发展和和解的重要组成部分，这表明关注支持社区成员对有效的项目设计是有用的。
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Preparing and Supporting University Physics Educators.] In this study, we analyze the experience of students in the Physics Learning Assistant (LA) program at Texas State University in terms of the existing theoretical frameworks of community of practice and physics identity, and explore the implications suggested by these theories for LA program adoption and adaptation. Regression models from physics identity studies show that the physics identity construct strongly predicts intended choice of a career in physics. The goal of our current project is to understand the details of the impacts of participation in the LA experience on participants' practice and self-concept, in order to identify critical elements of LA program structure that positively influence physics identity and physics career intentions for students. Our analysis suggests that participation in the LA program impacts LAs in ways that support both stronger "physics student" identity and stronger "physics instructor" identity, and that these identities are reconciled into a coherent integrated physics identity. Increased comfort in interactions with peers, near peers, and faculty seems to be an important component of this identity development and reconciliation, suggesting that a focus on supporting community membership is useful for effective program design.