Koos Kortland contributes as an educator/researcher within the institute to
the following activities in the areas of education, research and
development:
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the course Innovation and Dissemination:
Change in Science Education and Communication
- a part of the centre's Master Programme Science Education and
Communication (course code AS-SEC413) - see
http://www.uu.nl/university/masters/nl/scienceeducationandcommunication
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the Woudschoten
Conference on Physics Didactics - an annual two-day in-service
teacher education conference for physics teachers in secondary education
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design research projects in the area of
context-based science curricula (including learning in authentic
practices and a problem-posing approach to teaching and learning).
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the Ionising Radiation
Laboratory - a physics laboratory at Utrecht University
including three mobile laboratories visiting schools with experiments
about radioactivity and X-rays for students in secondary education (pre-university
stream, years 5 and 6; higher general stream, year 5).
For more information see:
http://www.fisme.science.uu.nl/isp/english.php
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the project Measuring
at a Distance - a subject-specific developmental research project
about the design of a website enabling students in secondary education to
measure the speed of light with an equipment setup controlled and
manipulated by them through the internet (pre-university stream, years 5
and 6).
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the University-based
Physics Laboratory - a physics laboratory at Utrecht University for
students in secondary education (pre-university stream, years 5 and 6;
higher general stream, year 5). For more information, use the link at the
bottom of this page.
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the project Computer-assisted
Modelling - a research project about the use of a graphical
modelling tool in the school subjects physics, chemistry and biology for
students in secondary education (pre-university stream, years 5 and 6).
For more information, use the link at the bottom of this page.
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the High
School Project on Astrophysics with Cosmics (HiSPARC) - a national
project in which secondary schools and scientific research institutes
co-operate in setting up an array of high-energy cosmic radiation detectors.
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the project Medical Imaging: The Glass Patient
- an
international cooperative
development project
about the physics of medical imaging techniques
during the conference Physics on Stage 2 in 2003. The teaching
materials aimed at students in secondary education at different levels
can be found on http://www.fisme.science.uu.nl/pos
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the
project New Physics - developing a
collection of conceptual questions as a teaching resource.
He is a member of the Executive Board of the Physics Didactics
Committee (WND) and the European Science Education Research
Association (ESERA).
WND is the organiser of the annual Woudschoten
Conference on Physics Didactics - see above.
ESERA is a European
organisation for stimulating research in the area of science education
aimed at improving educational practices in elementary, secondary and
tertiary education - see http://www.esera.org.
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