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?
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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?
Continue readingNormalized gain, g, has been the standard statistic in PER for the past two decades, but its statistical properties haven’t been explored until recently.
Continue readingArguably one of the most significant papers in physics education, this paper gave strong evidence in favor of active learning over traditional lecture courses.
Continue readingDATs are a new way to create long-term, sustainable changes in an academic department.
Continue readingMen score better than women do on physics conceptual inventories and the reasons aren’t straightforward.
Continue readingLecture courses have been extensively studied but lab courses have not been. Are students developing the beliefs we would expect them to in lab courses?
Continue readingStudents learn astronomy informally through various forms of media. How does this inform their ideas about the fate of universe?
Continue readingMath is essential to solving physics problems. Does improving students’ math skills help them do better in physics?
Continue readingTraditional lecture courses leave students with more negative attitudes about physics when they finish the course than when they begin. Modeling Instruction may be different.
Continue readingIt may be obvious that physics professors and introductory students solve physics problems differently. However, how they differ may not be so obvious.
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