AAPT Special: Do workshops work? With the right facilitation, yes.

July 27, 2018 Nick Young

AAPT Special: Do workshops work? With the right facilitation, yes.

Workshops are successful in introducing new teaching strategies but less so in sustaining them. How the strategies are introduced matters.

July 18, 2018 Nick Young

The (physics class) Social Network

A student’s network could have an impact on whether they decide to continue their degree program. Today’s paper looks into this issue.

July 5, 2018 Nick Young

Who wants to be physics teacher?

What are the demographics of future physics teachers & are any of those characteristics associated with their performance on certification exams?

June 20, 2018 Nick Young

The Price of Active Learning

Active learning methods are thought to be more costly to implement than traditional lectures. Is this common belief actually the case and if so, what does that mean for their implementation?

June 6, 2018 Nick Young

To use g or not to use g? That is the question.

Normalized gain, g, has been the standard statistic in PER for the past two decades, but its statistical properties haven’t been explored until recently.

May 23, 2018 Nick Young

The Original Case for Active Learning

Arguably one of the most significant papers in physics education, this paper gave strong evidence in favor of active learning over traditional lecture courses.

May 9, 2018 Nick Young

What’s DAT? A new approach to departmental change

DATs are a new way to create long-term, sustainable changes in an academic department.

April 25, 2018 Nick Young

What can explain the gender gap on conceptual inventories?

Men score better than women do on physics conceptual inventories and the reasons aren’t straightforward.

April 11, 2018 Nick Young

What do students think about experimental physics?

Lecture courses have been extensively studied but lab courses have not been. Are students developing the beliefs we would expect them to in lab courses?