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Students taught by a first-time instructor using active learning teaching strategies outperform students taught by a highly-regarded traditional instructor
Colin S. Wallace, Edward E. Prather, John A. Milsom +2
In this paper we put forth a model for physics course reform that uniquely uses proven, research-based active learning strategies to help students improve their physics knowledge a…
A New Lecture-Tutorial for Teaching Interferometry to Astro 101 Students
Colin S. Wallace, Chase Hatcher, Timothy G. Chambers +3
The ground-breaking image of a black hole's event horizon, which captured the public's attention and imagination in April 2019, was captured using the power of interferometry: many…
Developing Peer Instruction questions for quantitative problems for an upper-division astronomy course
Colin S. Wallace
Decades of research show that students learn more in classes that utilize active learning than they do in traditional, lecture-only classes. Active learning also reduces the achiev…
An item response theory evaluation of the Light and Spectroscopy Concept Inventory national data set
Colin S. Wallace, Timothy G. Chambers, Edward E. Prather
This paper presents the first item response theory (IRT) analysis of the national data set on introductory, general education, college-level astronomy teaching using the Light and…
Transforming the content, pedagogy and structure of an introductory physics course for life sciences majors
David P. Smith, Laurie E. McNeil, David T. Guynn +3
In this paper, we describe how we transformed our large-enrollment introductory physics sequence for life-science students to a Lecture/Studio format and aligned the physics concep…
Using graphical and pictorial representations to teach introductory astronomy students about the detection of extrasolar planets via gravitational microlensing
Colin S. Wallace, Timothy Chambers, Edward E. Prather +1
The detection and study of extrasolar planets is an exciting and thriving field in modern astrophysics, and an increasingly popular topic in introductory astronomy courses. One det…