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Bringing Lecture-Tutorials Online: An Analysis of A New Strategy to Teach Planet Formation in the Undergraduate Classroom
Haylee N. Archer, Molly N. Simon, Chris Mead +3
Previous studies conclusively show that pencil-and-paper lecture-tutorials (LTs) are incredibly effective at increasing student engagement and learning gains on a variety of topics…
From A Systematic Investigation of Faculty-Produced Think-Pair-Share Questions to Frameworks for Characterizing and Developing Fluency-Inspiring Activities
Rica Sirbaugh French, Edward E. Prather
Our investigation of 353 faculty-produced multiple-choice Think-Pair-Share questions leads to key insights into faculty members' ideas about the discipline representations and inte…
Making Science Personal: Inclusivity-Driven Design for General-Education Courses
Christine O'Donnell, Edward E. Prather, Peter Behroozi
General-education college astronomy courses offer instructors both a unique audience and a unique challenge. For many students, such a course may be their first time encountering a…
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…
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…