Yes. However, students may also do worse due to taking the test outside of the classroom.
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Yes. However, students may also do worse due to taking the test outside of the classroom.
Continue readingThe percentage grading scale can lead to more students failing and over-count low grades.
Continue readingSolution videos can help students learn but they may become overconfident in their abilities.
Continue readingResearch conducted across 8 institutions, covering 2 introductory-level course and 10 upper-division courses (for a total of 1879 students), suggests that, even in the worst case, only a small percentage of students engage in behaviors such as using external resources while answering Research Based Assessments and this has a negligible effect on the class average.
Continue readingStudents enjoy online demos just as much as live demos, but may learn more from online demos.
Continue readingThose sitting near someone on their laptop scored 17% lower on a test than those sitting near someone taking notes
Continue readingOlder children are more likely to report that both boys & girls usually, should be, and can be good at STEM.
Continue readingInterestingly, their belief that they are good at science and can do science was a distant third.
Continue readingIf you guessed lecture, you would be correct. However, students also expect some non-lecturing.
Continue readingToday’s piece explores common examples of “bad mentoring” according to undergrad researchers and how to fix them.
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