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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Tag: Educational policy
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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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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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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Extra! Extra! Physics labs may be extra.
Labs have been a standard part of the physics curriculum. Today’s paper suggests that labs don’t help students develop physics knowledge beyond what is already covered in other parts of the course.
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The lack of a relation between student learning and student evaluations
Student evaluations of instruction are widely used to evaluate instructors. Today’s article suggests these are not correlated with student learning.
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Who wants to be physics teacher?
What are the demographics of future physics teachers & are any of those characteristics associated with their performance on certification exams?
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The Price of Active Learning
Active learning methods are thought to be more costly to implement than traditional lectures. Is this common belief actually the case and if so, what does that mean for their implementation?
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