Nick Young, Author at PERbites

Virtual Labs vs Physical Labs: does it matter?

Physics labs can be done with physical equipment or done virtually. It appears each has its own benefits.

Many instructors fear that switching from lecture to active learning will result in worse student evaluations. That doesn’t appear to be the case.

Analogies are used all of the time in physics education. But what makes a good analogy?

Today’s post introduces a new type of representation for understanding circuits, the power box with multiple examples.

Minority students in classes with fixed-mindset instructors do worse than in classes with growth-mindset instructors.

Prior work has claimed that taking notes by hand is better than on a computer but this claim doesn’t appear to hold up.

As more decimal places are shown in data, high school students seem less able to draw correct conclusions.

Yep, women who perform the same as men perform don’t feel they are as capable of doing physics.

Getting a group of instructors together to grade can be difficult, but it seems to be worth the hassle.

Students of various levels have difficulties determining the energy of a quantum state.