Presentation Year

2018

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Thomas ElliottPhysics/AstronomyUndergraduate Student,Lauren Kaufman-CarlsonPhysics/AstronomyUndergraduate Student

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Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

The basis of our research is to assess why learning gains are low within introductory astronomy courses and how scores can be improved. Examining pre and post scores from an Astronomical Diagnostics Test we were able to examine learning gains of fifty-six students. We used Hake’s normalized gain formula to quantify learning gains. The average learning gain found was 0.20 and the highest gains fell among questions such as phases and position of the moon, eclipses, and seasons on Earth, with gains between 0.5-.64. Because Hake’s normalized gain formula is biased, we are looking into other methods of quantifying our data.

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Yes

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426

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