Physics Education Research Section

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  • Cynthia E. Heiner
  • Amanda I. Banet
  • Carl Wieman
چکیده

We discuss our implementation of targeted pre-reading assignments with an associated online quiz in two science classes, one physics and one biology. Our goal was to create a pre-class assignment that helped students recognize the benefits of reading before class. Students were asked to take part in a survey about how and why they completed the pre-reading assignments. We found that 80% of students read the textbook on a regular basis, which is much higher than reported in previous studies. Also nearly 3/4 of students reported using productive strategies for completing the reading assignment and cited reading prior to class as being helpful to their learning. Student self-reports were checked against electronic logs and were found to be highly accurate. Moreover, these results were nearly identical between the physics and biology courses.VC 2014 American Association of Physics Teachers. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.4895008]

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تاریخ انتشار 2014