Workshops are successful in introducing new teaching strategies but less so in sustaining them. How the strategies are introduced matters.
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Tag: Learning environment
The (physics class) Social Network
A student’s network could have an impact on whether they decide to continue their degree program. Today’s paper looks into this issue.
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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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What can explain the gender gap on conceptual inventories?
Men score better than women do on physics conceptual inventories and the reasons aren’t straightforward.
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What do students think about experimental physics?
Lecture courses have been extensively studied but lab courses have not been. Are students developing the beliefs we would expect them to in lab courses?
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