Student Understanding in PHY131 coming from LC vs Traditional

Submitted by Dwain Desbien on
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This fall I compared (Like Becky Baranowski had done for Calc 2) students coming from the PHY 121 traditional class versus those in PHY121/MAT221 Learning community on the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism. While the numbers are small (n=12 from LC and n=10 from traditional) it was interesting to compare. Both groups had essentially the same pretest score (LC 18.2% and Trad 18.3%) but differed on the post test (LC 67% and trad 52%). Since the numbers are small I will be adding the students from this spring semester to try and get more statistically reliable numbers

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Heather Muns Sat, 02/14/2015 - 12:00am

I think it is good that you are adding to this research.  I look forward to your results.  

Peter Turner Mon, 02/16/2015 - 4:44pm

Ah, some more (albeit not yet statistically sound) data to support LCs! Why am I not surprised?