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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Even when the CVs are otherwise identical, physics faculty preferred applicants from majority groups as opposed to candidates from minority groups.
Continue readingFaculty 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?
Continue readingMany instructors fear that switching from lecture to active learning will result in worse student evaluations. That doesn’t appear to be the case.
Continue readingYep, women who perform the same as men perform don’t feel they are as capable of doing physics.
Continue readingThe GRE: great at acting as a barrier to underrepresented groups, not so good as a predictor of completing graduate school.
Continue readingPhysics is less diverse than other physical sciences. Do graduate school admission processes contribute to this?
Continue readingLabs 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.
Continue readingStudent evaluations of instruction are widely used to evaluate instructors. Today’s article suggests these are not correlated with student learning.
Continue readingWhat are the demographics of future physics teachers & are any of those characteristics associated with their performance on certification exams?
Continue readingActive 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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