Our research focuses on practical issues regarding understanding our TBL implementation. Some of our current questions are:
- What is the status of the gender gap that typically plagues introductory physics courses in our TBL implementation?
- How is a student’s performance affected by the number of weak vs. strong students in their team?
- For some topics the TBL experience was dominated by problem solving while other topics were more laboratory-based. Are there significant differences between these approaches?
Chasya Church and Brokk Toggerson are exploring these questions by analyzing data collected throughout the semester imported into python pandas. You can see our code (but not our data) in our gitHub: http://github.com/UMassP131, and many of our references can be found in our Zotero library: https://www.zotero.org/groups/umass_phys_131_reform