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Eleanor C. Sayre:
Papers, Talks, and Posters

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Thesis

E.C. Sayre Advanced Students' Resource Selection in Nearly-Novel Situations Unpublished M.S.T. thesis, University of Maine, 2005

Papers

E.C. Sayre, M.C. Wittmann, and J.R. Thompson Resource Selection in Nearly-Novel Situations In S. Franklin, K. Cummings, J. Marx (Eds.) Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 2003 (submitted).

Contributed Talks

E.C. Sayre and M.C. Wittmann Plasticity and the Differential (abstract) 131st AAPT National Meeting, Salt Lake City UT, 2005 August. The Announcer 35(2).
E.C. Sayre, M.C. Wittmann Advanced Mechanics Students' Conflicts Between Physics and Mathematics Intuitions (abstract) 129th AAPT National Meeting, Sacramento CA, 2004 August. The Announcer 34(2) 184
E.C. Sayre, M.C. Wittmann Student Selection of Reasoning Resources in Nearly-Novel Situations (abstract) 128th AAPT National Meeting, Miami Beach FL, 2004 January
E.C. Sayre, K. Brownstein Q-Sphere: An Iterative Method for Calculating the Lowest Energy Configuration for an Arbitrary Number of Charges on a Sphere Regional meeting of the APS and AAPT, Bates College, 2003 October

Contributed Posters

E.C. Sayre and M.C. Wittmann Plasticity and student use of the differential in an intermediate mechanics class Physics Education Research Conference, Salt Lake City UT, August 2005.
E.C. Sayre, M.C. Wittmann The Structure of Intermediate Mechanics Students’ Physics and Mathematics Intuitions Physics Education Research Conference, Sacramento CA, 2004 August.
E.C. Sayre, M.C. Wittmann. J.R. Thompson Resource Selection in Nearly-Novel Situations Physics Education Research Conference, Madison, WI, August 2003.

Department of Physics and Astronomy
College of Education and Human Development
Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research
 

Contact Information

Michael C. Wittmann
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John R. Thompson
Department of Physics and Astronomy
5709 Bennett Hall
University of Maine
Orono ME 04401-5709
tel: Michael C. Wittmann: 207 - 581 - 1237
tel: John R. Thompson: 207 - 581 - 1030
fax: 207 - 581 - 3410