Prior work has claimed that taking notes by hand is better than on a computer but this claim doesn’t appear to hold up.
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Author: Nick Young
I am a physics graduate student at Michigan State University and the founder of PERbites. I'm interested in applying machine learning to analyze educational datasets and how students use computation in physics courses.
The more decimals, the more confusion
As more decimal places are shown in data, high school students seem less able to draw correct conclusions.
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Who feels more capable of doing physics: women with “A”s or men with “C”s? The answer probably won’t surprise you.
Yep, women who perform the same as men perform don’t feel they are as capable of doing physics.
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Buy the pizza, have the grading party
Getting a group of instructors together to grade can be difficult, but it seems to be worth the hassle.
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What do students think about measuring the energy of a quantum state?
Students of various levels have difficulties determining the energy of a quantum state.
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The GRE: what is it good for?
The GRE: great at acting as a barrier to underrepresented groups, not so good as a predictor of completing graduate school.
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When finding nothing is a result
Null results are often not published, but can provide useful results.
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You seem like a physicist
Explicitly and implicitly recognizing students as physicists can help them identify as physicists.
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How far is far? Investigating students’ knowledge about distance to astronomical objects
Students are often unfamiliar with sizes and distances of astronomical objects. Today’s study compares student knowledge about this topic at different educational levels.
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Not enough variation to explain the gender gap
The men and women earn equal STEM grades but men have higher variability in those grades. This isn’t enough to explain why there are more men in STEM.
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