Epistemology attitudes and beliefs

December 18, 2019 Nick Young

Math Anxiety and Math Avoidance

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.

November 14, 2019 Emily Kerr

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.

February 27, 2019 Nick Young

Hey 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.

January 30, 2019 Nick Young

The more decimals, the more confusion

As more decimal places are shown in data, high school students seem less able to draw correct conclusions.

January 16, 2019 Nick Young

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.

November 7, 2018 Nick Young

You seem like a physicist

Explicitly and implicitly recognizing students as physicists can help them identify as physicists.

October 24, 2018 Nick Young

How 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.

March 5, 2018 Nick Young

Maybe 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.