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I need help with...Where can I find good activities for small group discussions?
September 26, 2016
Nearly all research-based teaching methods in physics involve some kind of small group discussions of challenging conceptual activities. Finding good activities is an important component of making small group discussions work in your class. This recommendation includes links to collections where you can find activities to use in your class.
active learning, SCALE-UP, Peer Instruction, CAE Think-Pair-Share, Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment, clickers, cooperative groups
How do I help students engage productively in active learning classrooms?
June 20, 2017
If you incorporate active-learning strategies into your teaching, you may find that students don't automatically embrace this new learning approach. What are research-based recommendations for motivating students to engage? This is the introduction to a series of recommendations discussing strategies to support student engagement. INTRODUCTION.
engagement, active learning, productive engagement
How can I get students to have productive discussions of clicker questions?
March 15, 2016
Clicker questions are increasingly being used to stimulate student discussion and provide faculty and students with timely feedback. Research suggests that discussing clicker questions can lead to increased student learning, and that students exchanging constructive criticism can generate conceptual change.What can you do as an instructor to encourage all students to have…
clickers, cooperative groups, active learning, best practices, peer instruction
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Participate in our Data Explorer workshop at the AAPT summer meeting in Cincinnati:
Do you have data from concept inventories such as the FCI, FMCE, BEMA, CSEM, CLASS, or MPEX, that you haven't gotten around to analyzing yet? In this interactive workshop, you will upload your students' assessment and demographic data to the PhysPort Data Explorer, get instant analysis and visualization, explore patterns, and discuss these patterns and their implications with other participants.
