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Gender-grade-gap zeroed out under a specific intro-physics assessment regime
David J. Webb, Wendell H. Potter
Evidence is presented that offering introductory physics courses with an explicit focus on mastery can reduce the gender gap to zero. Taken together with a previous study showing t…
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…