Transitioning between tables, equations, and graphs (oh my!) in physics and math

August 29, 2018 Nick Young

Transitioning between tables, equations, and graphs (oh my!) in physics and math

Using multiple representations is central to the study of physics. Today we look at how well students can change between representations of linear functions.

August 15, 2018 Nick Young

Paper or Pla– Electronic For Conceptual Inventories

There is only so much class time during a semester which may make it difficult to incorporate research based assessments. Can we just give them online?

August 1, 2018 Nick Young

The lack of a relation between student learning and student evaluations

Student evaluations of instruction are widely used to evaluate instructors. Today’s article suggests these are not correlated with student learning.

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.