Conveners
(DPE) M1-5 DPE I | DEP I (DEP)
- Daria Ahrensmeier
The impact of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) on secondary education continues to disrupt and profoundly affect student learning and success at post-secondary institutions. Many university instructors have noted and reported that there has emerged a significant gap between course instructor expectations and students’ abilities for pandemic cohorts of students. Urgent consideration...
Review sessions, designed to provide students additional practice and support for summative assessments, help with prioritizing course material. With multitude of resources available online, the importance shifts to ensuring that students are engaged, inspired, aware of the level at which they will be tested, and able to assess their own knowledge. In courses that have problem solving skills...
Over the past decade, there has been a growing recognition in the physics community of the need for students in undergraduate physics programs to develop computational skills. Not only are computational skills utilized in a wide variety of careers, but they also teach students transferrable skills such as problem solving, analysis and critical thinking. While the value of these skills is...
Multiple choice questions are a common teaching and evaluation tool supporting Peer Instruction (PI) pedagogy in large-enrolment introductory physics classes across Canadian universities. Unfortunately, the multiple-choice format limits the opportunities for the students to formulate their own ideas. In addition, such questions often over-simplify the phenomena presented. Case studies based on...
