Designing Course Infrastructure to Support Early College Physics

Designing Course Infrastructure to Support Early College Physics

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Designing course activities, policies, and infrastructure to support early college (physics) success at the University of Illinois

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Designing course activities, policies, and infrastructure to support early college (physics) success at the University of Illinois

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Designing Course Infrastructure to Support Early College Physics

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  1. 1 Designing course activities, policies, and infrastructure to support early college (physics) success at the University of Illinois
  2. 2 Challenges at the start of an engineering degree
  3. 3 Why do students switch out of engineering?
  4. 4 Focus on course activities, policies, and infrastructure • Recent focus on social-psychological interventions
  5. 5 Introductory Physics at U of I
  6. 6 Creating infrastructure for student success
  7. 7 Does Phys 100 "work?"
  8. 8 Current Phys 100 team
  9. 9 NOT one size fits all
  10. 10 Outline of topics
  11. 11 Course Design
  12. 12 Emphasizing Learning over Evaluation Mastery-Based Homework
  13. 13 More Frequent, Lower Stakes Assessments
  14. 14 Improvement Bonus Points
  15. 15 Building social connections between students Finding HW.collaborators Week 1 discussion about transition to college
  16. 16 Finding HW collaborators
  17. 17 4 Learning Assistants Goals
  18. 18 Initial Findings on Collaboration in Phys100
  19. 19 Problem + solution
  20. 20 Students struggle to listen and respond to each other's ideas
  21. 21 A need to support student collaboration
  22. 22 Can group classwork normalize academic struggle?
  23. 23 Group work - future goals for collaboration design
  24. 24 Summary: A focus on course infrastructures

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