Students often use online resources to learn more or because they don’t find course resources accessible.
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Increasing equity in your course: there’s an intervention for that
Taking a recitation period to explain that adversity in college in common may help in closing gender and ethnic grade gaps.
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Metacognitive Training May Improve General Chemistry Student’s Study Strategies
A metacognitive intervention teaching General Chemistry students effective study skills led to students identify effective practices and may have improved performance in the course.
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Applying to Graduate School in PER
Its that time of year! If you plan to apply to grad school, we have some tips for you.
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Does prior training in a VR environment help students learn better from VR based instruction?
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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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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