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Attributing equity gaps to course structure in introductory physics
David J. Webb, Cassandra A. Paul
We add to a growing literature suggesting that demographic grade gaps should be attributed to biases embedded in the courses themselves. Changes in the structure of two different i…
Percent Grade Scale Amplifies Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Introductory Physics
Cassandra A. Paul, David J. Webb
In previous work we analyzed databases for 95 classes to show that the percent grade scale was correlated with a much higher student fail rate than the 4.0 grade scale. This paper…
Addendum to Concepts First Paper: A Student Deficit Model is Untenable in Understanding a Demographic Grade Gap
David J. Webb
This addendum shows that a demographic grade gap is best understood using a course deficit model rather than the more common student deficit model. Students from a concepts-first c…
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…
Relative impacts of different grade-scales on student success in introductory physics
David J. Webb, Cassandra A. Paul, Mary K. Chessey
In deciding on a student's grade in a class, an instructor generally needs to combine many individual grading judgments into one overall judgment. Two relatively common numerical s…
Pondering zeros: analysis of a decade of blanks and missed quizzes
Cassandra Paul, David J. Webb, Mary K. Chessey +1
When assessing student work, graders will often find that some students will leave one or more problems blank on assessments. Since there is no work shown, the grader has no means…