To promote equity, teachers need to know what kinds of inequities exist in their classrooms and to what extent.
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Category: Research Summaries
Sharing is Caring: The Effects of Teaching Conversations
Sharing your teaching practices, as well as learning new practices, can be beneficial to you and maybe your students.
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How to promote intergroup student interaction in an introductory lab
By directly prompting students to interact and incorporating open-ended tasks, lab instructors can increase intergroup student interaction to improve students’ learning.
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Extra time on physics exams doesn’t appear to improve performance (or close equity gaps)
While it does offer a small boost in performance, it may not be enough to justify the extra costs to students and instructors.
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Visuals and embedded questions seem to be make educational videos effective
Both need to be present in the video to get the intended effect.
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Making your departmental more LGBT+ friendly is more just eliminating exclusionary behaviors and policies
Just as important is being explicitly inclusive.
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Using visual abstracts to get more eyes on your work
Today’s post teaches you how to create a visual abstract.
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Trying to improve your students’ critical thinking skills? Try skill-based labs
Skill-based labs seem to improve students’ critical thinking skills and their attitudes about experimental physics
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Changing your grading strategy could reduce inequities
When it comes to grade inequities between racially minoritized and majoritized groups, the standard grading scale might be part of the problem.
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Short post-lecture multimedia videos might help student learning
1 minute post-lecture videos seem to do the trick.
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