That’s no schematic, it’s a power box

Today’s post introduces a new type of representation for understanding circuits, the power box with multiple examples.

Hey instructors, your beliefs can affect students’ grades (and not in a positive way)

Minority students in classes with fixed-mindset instructors do worse than in classes with growth-mindset instructors.

Prior work has claimed that taking notes by hand is better than on a computer but this claim doesn’t appear to hold up.

As more decimal places are shown in data, high school students seem less able to draw correct conclusions.

Yep, women who perform the same as men perform don’t feel they are as capable of doing physics.

Getting a group of instructors together to grade can be difficult, but it seems to be worth the hassle.

Students of various levels have difficulties determining the energy of a quantum state.

The GRE: great at acting as a barrier to underrepresented groups, not so good as a predictor of completing graduate school.

Null results are often not published, but can provide useful results.

Explicitly and implicitly recognizing students as physicists can help them identify as physicists.