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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Prior physics preparation seems to be the biggest contributor to the gender gap but a lot is still unknown.
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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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Under certain conditions, retrieval-based practice can produce learning at-least as good as peer instruction.
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AP courses are said to be equivalent to university courses but AP exam scores may not be as useful as we think
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Prior studies have found gender and racial performance gaps in physics. However, might those gaps be the result of gaps in preparation?
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Today we look at some problems physics students encounter when transitioning between representations of complex numbers.
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Even when the CVs are otherwise identical, physics faculty preferred applicants from majority groups as opposed to candidates from minority groups.
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Mentoring an undergraduate researcher for the first time or looking to improve your mentoring ability? See what the literature has to say.
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Faculty at more prestigious universities tend to publish more. However, faculty at prestigious universities tend to be trained at prestigious universities. So it is the training or their current position that causes their productivity bump?
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