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Jessie Durk; Amy Smith; Bilgesu Aydin; Adèle Julia; Isabel M. Rabey – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Being lectured by a woman physicist can benefit students' performance, motivation, and engagement with physics. However, due to the severe underrepresentation of women physics faculty, these instances may be scarce. Through semistructured interviews with seven women physics lecturers, we used expectancy-value theory to understand the situative…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Women Faculty, Physics, Science Instruction
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Sundstrom, Meagan; Heim, Ashley B.; Park, Barum; Holmes, N. G. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Researchers have pinpointed recognition from others as one of the most important dimensions of students' science and engineering identity. Studies, however, have found gender biases in students' recognition of their peers, with inconsistent patterns across introductory science and engineering courses. Toward finding the source of this variation,…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Physics, Science Instruction, Peer Relationship
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Preszler, Ralph W. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2009
Peer-facilitated workshops enhanced interactivity in our introductory biology course, which led to increased student engagement and learning. A majority of students preferred attending two lectures and a workshop each week over attending three weekly lectures. In the workshops, students worked in small cooperative groups as they solved challenging…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Workshops, Biology, Lecture Method