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Possible benefits from tutorials in 234

Possible benefits from tutorials in 234. Alex Small. Physics 234 in Winter 2010. 57 students started the course 47 students completed the course We have a lot to cover: Finish E&M Do AC circuits the right way (complex numbers!) Get and solve the wave equation Diffraction

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Possible benefits from tutorials in 234

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  1. Possible benefits from tutorials in 234 Alex Small

  2. Physics 234 in Winter 2010 • 57 students started the course • 47 students completed the course • We have a lot to cover: • Finish E&M • Do AC circuits the right way (complex numbers!) • Get and solve the wave equation • Diffraction • Geometrical optics • Relativity • We have 3 hours per week for 10 weeks • Some idiot scheduled 2 holidays in the midst of this

  3. If life gives you a fire hydrant, make a sprinkler! To mitigate the problem of too much to do in too little time, I did 2 things: • Asked the grader to hold office hours to provide additional peer tutoring during times when I wasn’t available. • Held one office hour per week in a classroom and spent most of those sessions on relevant U. Washington tutorials

  4. Tutorial Sessions • 8 weeks of U. Washington tutorials relevant to lecture. 1 week of homework help. 1 week away. • Suggested tutorial format not strictly followed. (I promise to go to confession.) • Attendance taking did not start until week 3 because ***essment was not on my mind. • Average attendance was 7.8 students/week • 17 students attended at least 1 session. • Attendance dropped over time. Homework help was more popular.

  5. Anecdata Correlation between attendance and course grade is as strong as correlation between homework and course grade!

  6. Caveats and Plans • Small sample size • Maybe the best students seek out more opportunities and skew data? • Do this more systematically next year, do more carefully-planned ***essment.

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