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