Looking at individual semesters doesn’t tell the full story.
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Tag: Educational policy
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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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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