Tag: Technology

February 19, 2020 Nick Young

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

October 1, 2019 Haley Wahl

The Pulsar Search Collaboratory: Making Pulsar Science Accessible to High School Students

Learn more about the Pulsar Search Collaboratory, a program that allows high school students to search for pulsars with the Green Bank Telescope!

August 15, 2018 Nick Young

Paper or Pla– Electronic For Conceptual Inventories

There is only so much class time during a semester which may make it difficult to incorporate research based assessments. Can we just give them online?

June 6, 2018 Nick Young

To use g or not to use g? That is the question.

Normalized gain, g, has been the standard statistic in PER for the past two decades, but its statistical properties haven’t been explored until recently.