{"id":5414,"date":"2011-02-19T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/19\/what-im-saying-at-aaas\/"},"modified":"2011-02-19T15:31:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T15:31:16","slug":"what-im-saying-at-aaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/19\/what-im-saying-at-aaas\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Saying at AAAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I had to have the slides for my AAAS talk ready well in advance, I might as well let you look at them more or less as I give the talk. So, courtesy of SlideShare, here&#8217;s the presentation I&#8217;ll be giving right around the time this is scheduled to post:<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width:425px\" id=\"__ss_6979008\"><strong style=\"display:block;margin:12px 0 4px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/orzelc\/what-physics-knowledge-is-assessed-in-timss-advanced-2008\" title=\"What Physics Knowledge Is Assessed in TIMSS Advanced 2008?\">What Physics Knowledge Is Assessed in TIMSS Advanced 2008?<\/a><\/strong><object id=\"__sse6979008\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=aaastimsstalk-110218191526-phpapp02&#038;stripped_title=what-physics-knowledge-is-assessed-in-timss-advanced-2008&#038;userName=orzelc\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed name=\"__sse6979008\" src=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=aaastimsstalk-110218191526-phpapp02&#038;stripped_title=what-physics-knowledge-is-assessed-in-timss-advanced-2008&#038;userName=orzelc\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:5px 0 12px\">View more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\">presentations<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/orzelc\">Chad Orzel<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>the question I was asked to talk about is whether the released questions from the <a href=\"http:\/\/timss.bc.edu\/timss_advanced\/ir-release.html\">Trends in International Mathematics and Science Survey<\/a> test from 2008 do a reasonable job of covering what we want physics students to know coming in. The answer: yeah, more or less. There are some odd omissions, though, and a few interesting tidbits from the scores that were released as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I had to have the slides for my AAAS talk ready well in advance, I might as well let you look at them more or less as I give the talk. So, courtesy of SlideShare, here&#8217;s the presentation I&#8217;ll be giving right around the time this is scheduled to post: What Physics Knowledge Is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/19\/what-im-saying-at-aaas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What I&#8217;m Saying at AAAS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,78,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-conferences","category-education","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}