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Attributing equity gaps to course structure in introductory physics
David J. Webb, Cassandra A. Paul
We add to a growing literature suggesting that demographic grade gaps should be attributed to biases embedded in the courses themselves. Changes in the structure of two different i…
Percent Grade Scale Amplifies Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Introductory Physics
Cassandra A. Paul, David J. Webb
In previous work we analyzed databases for 95 classes to show that the percent grade scale was correlated with a much higher student fail rate than the 4.0 grade scale. This paper…
Relative impacts of different grade-scales on student success in introductory physics
David J. Webb, Cassandra A. Paul, Mary K. Chessey
In deciding on a student's grade in a class, an instructor generally needs to combine many individual grading judgments into one overall judgment. Two relatively common numerical s…
Resource Letter RBAI-2: Research-based assessment instruments: Beyond physics topics
Adrian Madsen, Sarah B. McKagan, Eleanor C Sayre +1
This Resource Letter provides a guide to research-based assessment instruments (RBAIs) for physics and astronomy classes, but goes beyond physics and astronomy topics to include: a…
Pondering zeros: analysis of a decade of blanks and missed quizzes
Cassandra Paul, David J. Webb, Mary K. Chessey +1
When assessing student work, graders will often find that some students will leave one or more problems blank on assessments. Since there is no work shown, the grader has no means…
Grading by Category: A simple method for providing students with meaningful feedback on exams in large courses
Cassandra Paul, Wendell H. Potter, Brenda Weiss
Many instructors choose to assess their students using open-ended written exam items that require students to show their understanding of physics by solving a problem and/or explai…
Variation of Instructor-Student Interactions in an Introductory Interactive Physics Course
Emily A. West, Cassandra A. Paul, David Webb +1
The physics instruction at UC Davis for life science majors takes place in a long-standing reformed large-enrollment physics course in which the discussion/lab instructors (primari…
Sixteen years of Collaborative Learning through Active Sense-making in Physics (CLASP) at UC Davis
Wendell Potter, David Webb, Emily West +5
This paper describes our large reformed introductory physics course at UC Davis, which bioscience students have been taking since 1996. The central feature of this course is a focu…