Resources

Peer Instruction: Engaging Students One-on-One, All At Once - info

Catherine Crouch, Jessica Watkins, Adam Fagen, and Eric Mazur, Research-Based Reform of University Physics, 1(1) (...

Physics Education Research (PER) User's Guide - info

A web resource for physics educators (and others) to learn how to teach more effectively by applying the results of...

Poster on Department-based Science Education Specialists (STF/STLFs) - info

Agents of change in university education - for the Facilitating Change in Undergraduate STEM Symposium, Western...

Poster on the UBC and CU Science Education Initiatives - info

UBC and CU Science Education Initiatives, Facilitating Change in Undergraduate STEM Symposium, Western Michigan...

Poster on the UBC Science Education Initiative - 2009 - info

Poster for the President's Campus Town Hall, September 2009

Preclass-Reading Assignments: Why they may be the most important homework for your students - info

We usually think of homework as a task, such as a problem set, in which students apply what they have learned in...

Pretty Good Physics - PGP for Clickers - info

This is an organized collection of PowerPoint files with clicker questions mainly for high school and AP physics....

Promoting Course Alignment: Developing a systematic approach to question development - info

A 2-pager on promoting course alignment by developing a suite of questions targeting a learning goal that can be...

Quality of UBC students relative to other BC and major US Universities - info

A report by Carl Wieman and Walter Sudmant, updated in January 2008.

Quantifying student behavioral engagement based on teaching practices in a large class - info

Poster presented at the Improving University Teaching (IUT) 34th International Conference, Vancouver, BC (July 2009...

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