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Reducing the weight of low exam scores may raise average grades but does not appear to impact equity gaps
Nicholas T. Young, Rebecca L. Matz, Eric F. Bell +1
Students interpret grades as signals of their strengths, and grades inform students' decisions about majors and courses of study. Differences in grades that are not related to lear…
Black Hole Growth, Baryon Lifting, Star Formation, and IllustrisTNG
G. M. Voit, B. D. Oppenheimer, E. F. Bell +2
Quenching of star formation in the central galaxies of cosmological halos is thought to result from energy released as gas accretes onto a supermassive black hole. The same energy…
Complex multiple-choice questions are inequitable for low-income and domestic students (and difficult for everyone)
Nicholas T. Young, Mark Mills, Rebecca L. Matz +2
High-stakes exams play a large role in determining an introductory physics student's final grade. These exams have been shown to be inequitable, often to the detriment of students…