Selected Publications
(For complete list of publications, please see the faculty member's curriculum vitae.)

Selected Articles
Otero, V. (2006). Moving beyond the “get it or don’t” conception of formative assessment. Journal of Teacher Education, 57, 247-255.

Harlow, D., & Otero, V. (2005). Collaboration physics: Elementary teachers and university researchers join forces to help students construct understanding of friction-and discover something of the nature of science in the process. Science & Children, 42(5), 35-39.

Otero, V., Johnson, A., & Goldberg, F. (1999). How does the computer facilitate the development of physics knowledge by prospective elementary teachers? Journal of Teacher Education, 181(2), 57-89.

Conference Proceedings
Finkelstein, N., Trupen, C., Pollock, S., Dubson, M., Iona, S., Keller, C., & Otero, V. (2006). Evaluating a model of research-based practices for teacher preparation in a physics department: Colorado PhysTEC. Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings, V. 818, pp. 3-6. Click here for article abstract found on the American Institute of Physics homepage.

Harlow, D., & Otero, V. (2006). Talking to learn physics and learning to talk physics. Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings, V. 818, pp. 53-56. Click here for article abstract found on the American Institute of Physics homepage.

Harlow, D., & Otero, V. (2005). Learning physics by listening to children. Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings, V. 790, pp. 105-108. Click here for article abstract found on the American Institute of Physics homepage.

Harlow, D., & Otero, V. (2004). An examination of children's scientific argumentation. Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings, V. 720, pp. 145-148. Click here for article abstract found on the American Institute of Physics homepage.

Otero, V. & Nathan, M. (2004). Elementary pre-service teachers' conceptions of students' prior knowledge. Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings, V. 720, pp. 141-144. Click here for article abstract found on the American Institute of Physics homepage.