While it does offer a small boost in performance, it may not be enough to justify the extra costs to students and instructors.
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Tag: Educational policy
Making your departmental more LGBT+ friendly is more just eliminating exclusionary behaviors and policies
Just as important is being explicitly inclusive.
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Changing your grading strategy could reduce inequities
When it comes to grade inequities between racially minoritized and majoritized groups, the standard grading scale might be part of the problem.
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Expanding the full-time, part-time student dichotomy
Looking at individual semesters doesn’t tell the full story.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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