P-dog's blog: boring but important

Astronomy and physics education research and comments, field-tested think-pair-share (peer instruction) clicker questions, flashcard questions, in-class activities (lecture-tutorials), current events questions, backwards faded scaffolding laboratories, Hake gains, field-tested multiple-choice and essay exam questions, indices of discrimination, presentation slides, photos, ephemerae, astronomy in the marketplace, unrelated random sketches and minutiae.

20080831

Astronomy clicker question: moonrise time

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Astronomy 210, Fall Semester 2008 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Students were asked the following clicker question (Classroom Performa...
20080830

"Astronomy in the Marketplace"

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"Astronomy in the Marketplace" is first-day-of-class brainstorming activity facilitated by the instructor, developed by Dennis Sch...
20080829

Physics clicker question: instantaneous speed vs. magnitude of instantaneous velocity

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Physics 205A, Fall Semester 2008 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Students were asked the following clicker question (Classroom Performan...
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20080828

Physics clicker question: average velocity vs. instantaneous velocity

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Physics 205A, Fall Semester 2008 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Cf. Giambattista/Richardson/Richardson, Physics, 1/e , Multiple-Choice ...
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20080827

Erasing slate: wow!

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"Wow!" by Anonymous August 25, 2008 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Latest scribbling on the lift-and-erase slate in the hallw...
20080826

Physics clicker question: distance traveled vs. displacement magnitude

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Physics 205A, Fall Semester 2008 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Cf. Giambattista/Richardson/Richardson, Physics, 1/e , Conceptual Quest...
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20080824

First day of clickers: syllabus quiz

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A few minutes after picking up their course policy handout, students work on in their first attempt at think-(pair)-share using flashcards i...
20080823

Education research: think-pair-share flashcards

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Astronomy 210 (introductory astronomy) students at Cuesta College answer questions on a syllabus quiz on the first day of class, after being...
20080822

FCI pre-test comparison: Cuesta College versus UC-Davis

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Students at both Cuesta College (San Luis Obispo, CA) and the University of California at Davis were administered the Force Concept Inventor...
20080821

SPCI pre-test comparison: Cuesta College SLO vs. NC campuses

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The Star Properties Concept Inventory (SPCI, developed by Janelle Bailey, University of Nevada-Las Vegas) was administered to Astronomy 210 ...
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