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Class Size Effects in Active Learning Physics Courses
written by Charles J. De Leone, Wendell H. Potter, Catherine M. Ishikawa, Jacob Blickenstaff, and Patrick L. Hession
With the growth of the University of California, Davis, we have been forced to seek more space for our active learning based lower-division discussion/laboratories. Our new room holds twice as many students (48) as our existing laboratories. Since we still use the smaller rooms, students taking the one-year physics sequence have a chance to experience both the larger classroom environment and the smaller one. We took advantage of this situation to study the effect of class size on students and instructors in active learning physics courses. In this paper we report on the initial results of our study of these changes and offer some insight into the differences between larger and smaller active learning settings in physics.
Physics Education Research Conference 2001
Part of the PER Conference series
Rochester, New York: July 25-26, 2001
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© 2001 Charles J. De Leone, Wendell H. Potter, Catherine M. Ishikawa, Jacob A. Blickenstaff, Patrick L. Hession
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10.1119/perc.2001.pr.001
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9354528
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PERC 2001, TA training, active learning physics courses, class size, learning environment, teaching assistant
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Metadata instance created September 27, 2006 by Lyle Barbato
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February 16, 2016 by Lyle Barbato
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C. De Leone, W. Potter, C. Ishikawa, J. Blickenstaff, and P. Hession, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2001, Rochester, New York, 2001, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4317&DocID=1022).
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C. De Leone, W. Potter, C. Ishikawa, J. Blickenstaff, and P. Hession, Class Size Effects in Active Learning Physics Courses, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2001, Rochester, New York, 2001, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4317&DocID=1022>.
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De Leone, C., Potter, W., Ishikawa, C., Blickenstaff, J., & Hession, P. (2001, July 25-26). Class Size Effects in Active Learning Physics Courses. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2001, Rochester, New York. Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4317&DocID=1022
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De Leone, C, W. Potter, C. Ishikawa, J. Blickenstaff, and P. Hession. "Class Size Effects in Active Learning Physics Courses." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2001, Rochester, New York, July 25-26, 2001. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4317&DocID=1022 (accessed 28 March 2024).
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De Leone, Charles, Wendell H. Potter, Catherine M. Ishikawa, Jacob Blickenstaff, and Patrick L. Hession. "Class Size Effects in Active Learning Physics Courses." Physics Education Research Conference 2001. Rochester, New York: 2001. of PER Conference. 28 Mar. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4317&DocID=1022>.
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