Even though students learn more in active learning environments, students still feel they learn more in traditional lecture settings.
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Move over misconceptions and make way for resources: a wave motion example
Resources framework, an assest-based model for education research, can bring to light student ideas that are hidden to traditional methods used for analysing student responses.
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Supporting all students through Universal Design for Learning
The Universal Design for Learning are a set of guidelines for designing materials for diverse needs, abilities, and interests.
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How TAs Make a Difference in the Classroom
A recent paper suggests that graduate teaching assistant behaviors in the classroom significantly impact how well students do in their courses and hence, training teaching assistants on best practices in science education is important.
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Can we explain the physics conceptual inventory gender gap?
Prior physics preparation seems to be the biggest contributor to the gender gap but a lot is still unknown.
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The Pulsar Search Collaboratory: Making Pulsar Science Accessible to High School Students
Learn more about the Pulsar Search Collaboratory, a program that allows high school students to search for pulsars with the Green Bank Telescope!
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Retrieval-based practice and peer instruction in introductory Physics
Under certain conditions, retrieval-based practice can produce learning at-least as good as peer instruction.
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How does taking AP physics affect performance on conceptual assessments
AP courses are said to be equivalent to university courses but AP exam scores may not be as useful as we think
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Spam Posts on PERbites
Updates on the spam emails and posts on our site.
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Demographic gaps may just be preparation gaps
Prior studies have found gender and racial performance gaps in physics. However, might those gaps be the result of gaps in preparation?
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