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December 5, 2019 Nick Young

Yes Virginia, there is a way to reduce gender bias on your student evaluations of teaching

Adding a statement addressing implicit bias seems to reduce the gender gap.

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November 26, 2019 Prasanth

Meeting Bloom’s 2 sigma challenge with research-validated strategies

A combination of research-validated teaching methods can produce learning outcomes at a higher than 2 sigma level compared to traditional lecture.

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November 20, 2019 Nick Young

Want to know if your students are taking conceptual inventories seriously? There’s a test for that.

Wondering how many of your students are giving an honest effort on conceptual inventories? Today’s paper can help.

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November 14, 2019 Emily Kerr

Students Like Active Learning Less-But Learn More

Even though students learn more in active learning environments, students still feel they learn more in traditional lecture settings.

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October 30, 2019 Prasanth

Move over misconceptions and make way for resources: a wave motion example

Resources framework, an assest-based model for education research, can bring to light student ideas that are hidden to traditional methods used for analysing student responses.

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October 23, 2019 Nick Young

Supporting all students through Universal Design for Learning

The Universal Design for Learning are a set of guidelines for designing materials for diverse needs, abilities, and interests.

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October 16, 2019 Briley Lewis

How TAs Make a Difference in the Classroom

A recent paper suggests that graduate teaching assistant behaviors in the classroom significantly impact how well students do in their courses and hence, training teaching assistants on best practices in science education is important.

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October 9, 2019 Nick Young

Can we explain the physics conceptual inventory gender gap?

Prior physics preparation seems to be the biggest contributor to the gender gap but a lot is still unknown.

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October 1, 2019 Haley Wahl

The Pulsar Search Collaboratory: Making Pulsar Science Accessible to High School Students

Learn more about the Pulsar Search Collaboratory, a program that allows high school students to search for pulsars with the Green Bank Telescope!

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September 25, 2019 Prasanth

Retrieval-based practice and peer instruction in introductory Physics

Under certain conditions, retrieval-based practice can produce learning at-least as good as peer instruction.

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