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DPE Poster Session & Student Poster Competition Finals (5) | Session d'affiches DEP et finales du concours d'affiches étudiantes (5)
- Patricia Mitchler
In an effort to help students learn about the internal composition of various mesons and baryons, a simple game has been developed, inspired by the Eightfold Way organizational ideas of Murray Gell-Mann. In the game, two diagrams of mesons and two diagrams of baryons are created, with charge and strangeness as the principle axes. Students draw from four colour-coded sets of cards - each...
In a series of experiments designed to engage students in reflective thinking in exam-like situations, we test the effectiveness of two different interventions in improving student performance on specific short-answer questions. These interventions (1) ask students to explain their answer after answering a short-answer question, or (2) pair questions together for concepts that students...
The use of open textbooks in increasing dramatically in first year physics courses. This poster will present the result of scholarly research around student perceptions, the use and impact of open textbooks as well as suggestions for how instructors might change what they do in their classroom around their use of open textbooks.
Comparing and contrasting student's attitudes in first year...
Some instructors choose to discard the worst tests written by the student in their assessments. They calculate the mean of the best tests as opposed to the mean of all tests written. Naturally, this process will result in some expected grade inflation. In this presentation, we introduce the selection of the best k test/reflective writing scores from the n tests/reflective writing activities...
Two years ago, I founded the UBC Young Women for Science, a volunteer outreach club based in Vancouver, which brings female UBC STEM undergraduate students from various fields into high schools to speak about their subjects and research while including demonstrations and activities. Our goal is to reduce the gender gap in STEM by inspiring and encouraging more young girls to pursue STEM. There...
