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most citedUsing graphical and pictorial representations to teach introductory astronomy students about the detection of extrasolar planets via gravitational microlensing

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physics.ed-ph2017

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…

physics.ed-ph2017★ 3 cited

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…