Prior training in a VR environment on a topic unrelated to electrostatics helps students familiarize themselves with the environment, but doesn’t provide any additional learning benefits.
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Category: Research Summaries
How representative are PER studies?
Not very. The participants are whiter and wealthier than the general college population.
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Postdocs may develop PhD students’ skills more than faculty do
Engagement matters though. Specifically, talking about the research process and methods
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Helping students learn from online self-paced tools
The instructor must set the expectations why students should use the tool.
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Men participate more in active learning classes
Even though there were more women in the class, participation was not more equitable.
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Students retain conceptual knowledge longer than we think
In fact, it seems like student can retain concepts for months after the course ends.
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Ideas for supporting Black women physicists
Fewer than 100 Black women have PhDs in physics. Something needs to change.
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Expanding the full-time, part-time student dichotomy
Looking at individual semesters doesn’t tell the full story.
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POGIL Teaching Strategy Improves Student Performance in Large Introductory Chemistry Class
POGIL teaching strategies, where students work in groups to construct there own understanding of material from open ended questions, was shown to improve student performance in introductory chemistry courses.
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What do students draw when asked to “draw a scientist”?
Probably what you expect. Brainy white men in a lab.
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