Learning environment

May 1, 2019 Nick Young

Sexual harassment is a problem in physics

75% of undergraduate women in physics report experiencing some form of sexual harassment.

April 24, 2019 Nick Young

Virtual Labs vs Physical Labs: does it matter?

Physics labs can be done with physical equipment or done virtually. It appears each has its own benefits.

February 13, 2019 Nick Young

Is taking notes on paper better than taking notes on a computer? Y- Maybe?

Prior work has claimed that taking notes by hand is better than on a computer but this claim doesn’t appear to hold up.

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.

July 27, 2018 Nick Young

AAPT Special: Do workshops work? With the right facilitation, yes.

Workshops are successful in introducing new teaching strategies but less so in sustaining them. How the strategies are introduced matters.

July 18, 2018 Nick Young

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.

June 20, 2018 Nick Young

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?

April 25, 2018 Nick Young

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.

April 11, 2018 Nick Young

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?