The percentage grading scale can lead to more students failing and over-count low grades.
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Solution Videos and Student Overconfidence
Solution videos can help students learn but they may become overconfident in their abilities.
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Online delivery of Research Based Assessments
Research 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.
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Online vs live physics demonstrations: does it make a difference?
Students enjoy online demos just as much as live demos, but may learn more from online demos.
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If you are reading this during class, you are inhibiting a peer’s learning
Those sitting near someone on their laptop scored 17% lower on a test than those sitting near someone taking notes
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STEM gender stereotypes: from early childhood through adolescence
Older children are more likely to report that both boys & girls usually, should be, and can be good at STEM.
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Students Choose to Study Science in High School Because It Is Interesting and Useful
Interestingly, their belief that they are good at science and can do science was a distant third.
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What type of instruction do student expect in their intro STEM courses?
If you guessed lecture, you would be correct. However, students also expect some non-lecturing.
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Negative Experiences in Undergraduate Mentoring and How to Fix Them.
Today’s piece explores common examples of “bad mentoring” according to undergrad researchers and how to fix them.
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Math Anxiety and Math Avoidance
While math anxiety and math avoidance are assumed to be linked, today’s study is one of the first to find evidence of such link.
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