#CuestaAstr210 students: new North County campus telescope shelter will be fully operational soon. pic.twitter.com/MPK9u51LgN
— Patrick M. Len (@Patrick_M_Len) August 29, 2013
Astronomy and physics education research and comments, think-pair-share (peer instruction) clicker questions, flashcard questions, in-class activities (lecture-tutorials), current events questions, backwards faded scaffolding laboratories, Hake gains, multiple-choice and essay exam questions, indices of discrimination, presentation slides, photos, ephemerae, astronomy in the marketplace, unrelated random sketches and minutiae.
20130829
Tweet: North County campus telescope shelter
20130828
Tweet: Delta IV Heavy NROL-65 launch
#CuestaPhys205A students: anyone else have pics of the Delta IV Heavy NROL-65 launch from Vandenberg AFB? pic.twitter.com/PfRG3JYbeA
— Patrick M. Len (@Patrick_M_Len) August 28, 2013
Flashcard question: potential spring semester 2014 enrollment
Physics 205A, fall semester 2013
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA
Students in college physics at Cuesta College were polled in order to facilitate scheduling of classes for the next semester.
Planning on taking Physics 205B next semester?
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA
Students in college physics at Cuesta College were polled in order to facilitate scheduling of classes for the next semester.
Planning on taking Physics 205B next semester?
Yes. ******************** [40] Maybe. ************ [12] No. ************* [13] Undecided. *** [3]
20130822
FCI pre-test comparison: Cuesta College versus UC-Davis (fall semester 2013)
Students at both Cuesta College (San Luis Obispo, CA) and the University of California at Davis were administered the 30-question Force Concept Inventory (Doug Hestenes, et al.) during the first week of instruction.
*Excludes students with negative informed consent forms (*.pdf)
Student's t-test of the null hypothesis results in p = 0.64 (t = -0.473, sdev = 4.91, degrees of freedom = 148), thus there is no significant difference between Cuesta College and UC-Davis FCI pre-test scores.
Later this semester (fall 2013), a comparison will be made between Cuesta College and UC-Davis FCI post-tests, along with their pre- to post-test gains.
D. Hestenes, M. Wells, and G. Swackhamer, Arizona State University, "Force Concept Inventory," Phys. Teach. 30, 141-158 (1992).
Development of the FCI, a 30-question survey of basic Newtonian mechanics concepts.
Previous FCI results:
| Cuesta College Physics 205A Fall semester 2013 | UC-Davis Physics 7B Summer session II 2002 | |
| N | 74 students* | 76 students* |
| low | 0 | 2 |
| mean | 9.4 +/- 5.5 | 9.1 +/- 4.3 |
| high | 26 | 27 |
*Excludes students with negative informed consent forms (*.pdf)
Student's t-test of the null hypothesis results in p = 0.64 (t = -0.473, sdev = 4.91, degrees of freedom = 148), thus there is no significant difference between Cuesta College and UC-Davis FCI pre-test scores.
Later this semester (fall 2013), a comparison will be made between Cuesta College and UC-Davis FCI post-tests, along with their pre- to post-test gains.
D. Hestenes, M. Wells, and G. Swackhamer, Arizona State University, "Force Concept Inventory," Phys. Teach. 30, 141-158 (1992).
Development of the FCI, a 30-question survey of basic Newtonian mechanics concepts.
Previous FCI results:
- Cuesta College versus UC-Davis, fall semester 2012 pre-tests and post-tests.
- Cuesta College versus UC-Davis, fall semester 2011 pre-tests and post-tests.
- Cuesta College versus UC-Davis, fall semester 2009 pre-tests and post-tests.
- Cuesta College versus UC-Davis, spring semester 2009 pre-tests and post-tests.
- Cuesta College versus UC-Davis, fall semester 2008 pre-tests and post-tests.
- Cuesta College versus UC-Davis, spring semester 2008 pre-tests and post-tests.
- Cuesta College versus UC-Davis, fall semester 2007 pre-tests and post-tests.