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Physics instructors knowledge and use of active learning has increased over the last decade but most still lecture too much
Melissa Dancy, Charles Henderson, Nanah Apkarian +4
A survey of 722 physics faculty conducted in 2008 found that many physics instructors had knowledge of research-based instructional strategies (RBISs), were interested in using mor…
How well-intentioned white male physicists maintain ignorance of inequity and justify inaction
Melissa Dancy, Apriel Hodari
Background: We present an analysis of interviews with 27 self-identified progressive white-male physics faculty and graduate students discussing race and gender in physics. White m…
Towards a Model of Systemic Change in University STEM Education
Daniel L. Reinholz, Joel C. Corbo, Melissa H. Dancy +2
Despite numerous calls for the transformation of undergraduate STEM education, there is still a lack of successful models for creating large-scale, systemic cultural changes in STE…
A Framework for Transforming Departmental Culture to Support Educational Innovation
Joel C. Corbo, Daniel L. Reinholz, Melissa H. Dancy +2
This paper provides a research-based framework for promoting institutional change in higher education. To date, most educational change efforts have focused on relatively narrow su…
Physics Faculty and Educational Researchers: Divergent Expectations as Barriers to the Diffusion of Innovations
Charles Henderson, Melissa H. Dancy
Physics Education Research (PER) practitioners have engaged in substantial curriculum development and dissemination work in recent years. Yet, it appears that this work has had min…
Teaching with Physlets: Examples from Optics
Melissa Dancy, Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni
Physlets are scriptable Java applets that can be used for physics instruction. In this article we discuss the pedagogical foundations of Physlet use and provide a sample of Physlet…