Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
May 2nd, 2006
Robert Tai, a science education assistant professor at the University of Virginia recently published a study that claims students subjected to block scheduling in high-school science classes performed worse in college-level science. Tai along with high-school biology teacher Kirsten Dexter looked at a national sample of 8,000 introductory college science students from 31 states, many [...]
This video combines everyones favorite show “Saved by the Bell” with physics and music by The Monkees. Dr. Jeremy Levy at the University of Pittsburgh and his Physics 0110 students deserve some major Physics Phan points for that combination. There is very little actual physics in the video, and it’s not really that funny. But [...]
May 1st, 2006
ilovephysics.com has been experiencing explosive growth. Last summer, we were averaging about 7,000 visitors per month. During the fall semester, I let the site slip for a bit and readership dropped to about 4,000 visitors per month. Google also stopped crawling the site for several months for reasons still unknown, but last month they came [...]