Volume 17, Number 2

Electronic Version: February 2000
In Print: July 2000


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Contents

This edition of PASA contains the proceedings of the conference "Astronomy Education For the Next Millennium", held in Kingswood, Sydney in July 1999. As is becoming more common for the proceedings of conferences, all papers have been fully refereed.

A cosmic ray muon detector for astronomy teaching
R.W. Clay, Z.Kurban, A.H. Maghrabi, N.R. Wild
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The Universe on a Desktop: Observational Astronomy Simulations in the Instructional Laboratory
Laurence A. Marschall.
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The Charles Sturt University Remote Telescope Project: Astronomy for Primary School Students
David H. McKinnon, Andrew Mainwaring
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Pre-Course Results from the Astronomy Diagnostic Test
Beth Hufnagel, Timothy Slater, Grace Deming, Jeff Adams, Rebecca Lindell Adrian, Christing Brick, Michael Zeilik
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Using Astronomy as a vehicle for Science Education
Case Rijsdijk.
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STaRS: Space science Teaching and Resource Site
Glen Mackie
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Beauty and Astrophysics
Michael S. Bessell.
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Astronomy laboratory: What are we going to make today?
Susan Feteris and Don Hutton
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Cosmology on the Internet: Distance education for the gifted and talented
David H. McKinnon and C.J. Patrick Nolan
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Campbelltown Rotary Observatory
R. Bhathal
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Access to Astrophysical Research by Secondary Students
W. Bruce McAdam.
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Preparing Astronomy Majors for the Job Market of the New Millennium
Victor Migenes.
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Qualitative Analysis of Collaborative Learning Groups in Large-Enrollment Introductory Astronomy
Chija Skala, Timothy Frederick Slater and Jeffrey Paul Adams
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Assessment techniques in an online astronomy course
Margaret Mazzolini
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Astro concepts - learning underlying physics principles in conceptual astronomy
Mazzolini and Halls
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The student as scientist: secondary student research projects in astronomy
R. P. Hollow
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The future of robotic telescopes for education

J.E.F. Baruch

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How children observe the universe

John Dunlop

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