By directly prompting students to interact and incorporating open-ended tasks, lab instructors can increase intergroup student interaction to improve students’ learning.
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Tag: Learning environment
Escaping the “Covering Content” Narrative
If you want to make your course learner-centered, we have some ideas.
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Online vs live physics demonstrations: does it make a difference?
Students enjoy online demos just as much as live demos, but may learn more from online demos.
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If you are reading this during class, you are inhibiting a peer’s learning
Those sitting near someone on their laptop scored 17% lower on a test than those sitting near someone taking notes
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What type of instruction do student expect in their intro STEM courses?
If you guessed lecture, you would be correct. However, students also expect some non-lecturing.
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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.
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Sexual harassment is a problem in physics
75% of undergraduate women in physics report experiencing some form of sexual harassment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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