Yep, women who perform the same as men perform don’t feel they are as capable of doing physics.
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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.
Continue readingThe (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.
Continue readingThe 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?
Continue readingWhat can explain the gender gap on conceptual inventories?
Men score better than women do on physics conceptual inventories and the reasons aren’t straightforward.
Continue readingWhat 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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