Title: ‘‘I guess it was more than just my general knowledge of chemistry’’: exploring students’ confidence judgments in two-tiered assessments Authors:
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Want to address inequities in your class? There’s an app for that!
To promote equity, teachers need to know what kinds of inequities exist in their classrooms and to what extent.
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A Guide to Traditional Ecological Knowledge
For Native American Heritage Month, here is a (hopefully) helpful guide to including Indigenous knowledge in your classroom.
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Sharing is Caring: The Effects of Teaching Conversations
Sharing your teaching practices, as well as learning new practices, can be beneficial to you and maybe your students.
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How to promote intergroup student interaction in an introductory lab
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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Extra time on physics exams doesn’t appear to improve performance (or close equity gaps)
While it does offer a small boost in performance, it may not be enough to justify the extra costs to students and instructors.
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Visuals and embedded questions seem to be make educational videos effective
Both need to be present in the video to get the intended effect.
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Making your departmental more LGBT+ friendly is more just eliminating exclusionary behaviors and policies
Just as important is being explicitly inclusive.
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Using visual abstracts to get more eyes on your work
Today’s post teaches you how to create a visual abstract.
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Trying to improve your students’ critical thinking skills? Try skill-based labs
Skill-based labs seem to improve students’ critical thinking skills and their attitudes about experimental physics
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