To avoid littering the lists with a needless litany of vitriolic
complaints, if you object to references or to cross-posting as a way
to tunnel through intra-disciplinary barriers, please take a few
milliseconds to hit "DELETE" now.
In his AP-Physics post of 31 Jul 2005 titled "Arons and Knight
Books,"" Francesco Noschese (2005) wrote [bracketed by lines
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The "HW and Test Questions" book [Arons (1994)] is actually the
second half of Arons's larger "Teaching Introductory Physics" book
[Arons (1997)]. If you have the money (or can get your school to get
it) go for the "Teaching" book. This book is a classic for it set a
lot of groundwork for PER, though it might be a bit technical for
some. . . . The "Five Easy Lessons" book by Knight [Knight (2002)] is
cheaper and MUCH shorter read, great for those of us who don't have
any time for reading to begin with! In the first half of the book,
he nicely summarizes almost all of the work and teaching
methodologies in PER to date, including Arons and others.
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In my opinion "Teaching Introductory Physics" should be required
reading for ALL physics teachers. Those who do not immediately have
the time to peruse that classic may get some idea of Arons's
contributions to PER by scanning "The Arons Advocated Method" [Hake
(2004)].
REFERENCES
Arons, A.B. 1990. "A Guide to Introductory Physics Teaching." Wiley;
reprinted with minor updates in Arons (1997).
Arons, A.B. 1994. "Homework and Test Questions for Introductory
Physics Teaching." Wiley.
Arons, A.B. 1997. "Teaching Introductory Physics." Wiley. Contains a
slightly updated version of Arons (1990), plus "Homework and Test
Questions for Introductory Physics Teaching" (Arons 1994), plus a new
monograph "Introduction to Classical Conservation Laws."