The Two-Year College Physics Education Research Interest Group promotes:

• Public regular VIRTUAL events that include:

  • journal club meetings to discuss papers on how people learn physics and how to improve the quality of physics education.

  • presentations by TYC practitioners of PER, and PER specialists from the larger community.

  • tutorials on research-validated teaching strategies, assessment tools and their data analysis.

  • development of working groups: meetings to connect faculty with similar PER interests.

  • presentations on ways to disseminate TYC-PER results, and available financial aid to do that.

• Occasional workshops through the Continuing Professional Development Workshop (CPDW) program of OPTYCs, such as:

  • assessment of student learning: exploring the uses of various forms of assessment to improve instruction.

Listen to this American Radio Works' podcast giving an introduction to PER.

Attend our meetings and get to know your community: journal club, PER presentations, explore the resources.

We encourage the administration of research-validated assessments, like FCI or FCME. We offer presentations on how to analyze your own data or how to contribute to an aggregated data set on TYCs. Stay connected through our meetings.

We would like to help connecting you with others that have the same research interests, including at 4-year institutions. OPTYCs offers financial aid for presentation of TYC-PER work at AAPT conferences.