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Author: Nick Young

I am a physics and computational mathematics, science, and engineering PhD student at Michigan State University and the founder of PERbites. I'm interested in applying machine learning to analyze educational datasets and am currently studying the physics graduate school admissions process.
February 5, 2020 Nick Young

STEM gender stereotypes: from early childhood through adolescence

Older children are more likely to report that both boys & girls usually, should be, and can be good at STEM.

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January 22, 2020 Nick Young

What type of instruction do student expect in their intro STEM courses?

If you guessed lecture, you would be correct. However, students also expect some non-lecturing.

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January 8, 2020 Nick Young

Negative Experiences in Undergraduate Mentoring and How to Fix Them.

Today’s piece explores common examples of “bad mentoring” according to undergrad researchers and how to fix them.

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December 18, 2019 Nick Young

Math Anxiety and Math Avoidance

While math anxiety and math avoidance are assumed to be linked, today’s study is one of the first to find evidence of such link.

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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 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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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 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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September 18, 2019 Nick Young

How does taking AP physics affect performance on conceptual assessments

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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September 4, 2019 Nick Young

Demographic gaps may just be preparation gaps

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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