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Full-Cycle Assessment of Critical Thinking in an Ethics and Science Course
Enhancing critical thinking skills for undergraduate students is important across the curriculum and between disciplines. We report on a method of improving critical thinking skills, which was studied through an Ethics and ...
Self-Efficacy in Introductory Physics in Students at Single-Sex and Coeducational Colleges
We surveyed 88 students at four colleges: one men’s college, two women’s colleges, and one coeducational college. The questions, modified from Reid (2007), asked about in-class participation, how fulfilled they were by ...
Creating, implementing, and sustaining an advanced optical spectroscopy laboratory course
An upper-division laboratory course in atomic and molecular spectroscopy is described. Examples
of outcomes that also benefit second-year physics laboratories and demonstrations in introductory
courses are presented. The ...
Student Perceptions of an Introductory Laboratory Course
We surveyed students taking an introductory university physics laboratory course over the summer. These
students are science majors, but not physics majors. Eighteen students were interviewed, asked what they thought the ...
Using Matched Samples to Look for Sex Differences
The reasons for observed differences in physics performance between men and
women have yet to be clearly determined. This study asks the question: if men
and women have a similar background at the start of an introductory ...