While math anxiety and math avoidance are assumed to be linked, today’s study is one of the first to find evidence of such link.
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Students Like Active Learning Less-But Learn More
Even though students learn more in active learning environments, students still feel they learn more in traditional lecture settings.
Continue readingHey instructors, your beliefs can affect students’ grades (and not in a positive way)
Minority students in classes with fixed-mindset instructors do worse than in classes with growth-mindset instructors.
Continue readingThe more decimals, the more confusion
As more decimal places are shown in data, high school students seem less able to draw correct conclusions.
Continue readingWho 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.
Continue readingYou seem like a physicist
Explicitly and implicitly recognizing students as physicists can help them identify as physicists.
Continue readingHow far is far? Investigating students’ knowledge about distance to astronomical objects
Students are often unfamiliar with sizes and distances of astronomical objects. Today’s study compares student knowledge about this topic at different educational levels.
Continue readingMaybe students can complete introductory physics and still have a positive view of physics
Traditional lecture courses leave students with more negative attitudes about physics when they finish the course than when they begin. Modeling Instruction may be different.
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