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Tag: Educational policy

July 1, 2020 Nick Young

Expanding the full-time, part-time student dichotomy

Looking at individual semesters doesn’t tell the full story.

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May 20, 2020 Nick Young

Active learning may help close the gap between underrepresented & overrepresented students

Achievement gaps do decrease for active learning classes, but the amount of active learning matters.

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May 6, 2020 Nick Young

Not all disadvantages are equal in higher education

First-gen and low-income Asian/white students fare better than racially underrepresented students.

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April 8, 2020 Nick Young

Perhaps it’s time to rethink the percentage grading scale

The percentage grading scale can lead to more students failing and over-count low grades.

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July 10, 2019 Nick Young

Gender and racial biases still a problem in physics post-doctoral hiring

Even when the CVs are otherwise identical, physics faculty preferred applicants from majority groups as opposed to candidates from minority groups.

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May 22, 2019 Nick Young

The chicken and the egg problem of academic productivity

Faculty at more prestigious universities tend to publish more. However, faculty at prestigious universities tend to be trained at prestigious universities. So it is the training or their current position that causes their productivity bump?

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April 10, 2019 Nick Young

Will I get worse student evaluations if I switch to active learning? Probably not.

Many instructors fear that switching from lecture to active learning will result in worse student evaluations. That doesn’t appear to be the case.

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January 16, 2019 Nick Young

Who feels more capable of doing physics: women with “A”s or men with “C”s? The answer probably won’t surprise you.

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

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December 5, 2018 Nick Young

The GRE: what is it good for?

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

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September 26, 2018 Nick Young

What matters when applying to graduate school and how it impacts diversity

Physics is less diverse than other physical sciences. Do graduate school admission processes contribute to this?

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