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LOCATION:B343  Sterling Hall and on Zoom https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/3
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SUMMARY:Physics Education Research Projects in the Department of Physi
 cs\, Physics Education Innovation Forum\, Ayshea Banes\,  Isaac Barnhi
 ll\, and Mihir Manna\, UW Madison\, Department of Physics
DESCRIPTION:This month we will get a glimpse of research projects in p
 hysics education that are being led by three students in the Departmen
 t of Physics.  These studies have the potential to improve physics and
  other courses at UW and elsewhere.    Please join us in learning abou
 t them and providing helpful comments.<br>
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\nAyshea Banes: My r
 esearch explores ways to center Blackness within the physics classroom
  and how this may transform the Eurocentric pedagogy currently used to
  one that is culturally relevant and community-based.  Another topic I
  researched (with Erika Marin-Spiotta\, Dept. of Geography) was ways t
 hat anti-Blackness (more commonly known as white supremacy) appear wit
 hin physics education and how by identifying its exclusionary mechanis
 ms/assimilationist norms may lead to roads of Black liberation.<br>
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\nIsaac Barnhill: (working with Josh Weber and Peter Timbie)<br>

 \nThis experiment aims to make a controlled comparison between two dif
 ferent styles of instructional physics lab activity: traditional labs 
 which aim to reinforce content learned in the course lectures\, and ex
 perimentation labs which aim to teach students the role of experimenta
 tion in science broadly\, and physics in particular. The study will ex
 plore how students’ personal views on the nature and utility of expe
 rimentation are impacted by their lab curriculum and whether the new c
 urriculum affects student exam scores.<br>
\n<br>
\nMihir Manna: (work
 ing with Ben Spike)<br>
\nOur research is centered on supporting strat
 egic problem-solving approaches by students in Physics 103. Specifical
 ly\, we are writing new discussion problems that encourage students to
  choose their own high-level strategies\, rather than following a trad
 itional “fill in the blanks” structure that can limit student agen
 cy. We hope that these prompts will help students gain a better apprec
 iation for the usefulness of physics principles\, generalize such appr
 oaches to other contexts\, and feel more self-confident in their probl
 em-solving ability.<br>
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\nZoom recording available. Please cont
 act Josh Weber for access
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=9136
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