{"588628":{"#nid":"588628","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Course Reform MIT Style: Student Evaluations vs. Scientific Evidence","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Physics Colloquium: Prof. David E. Pritchard, MIT\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe evaluation of most course reforms typically rests heavily on teacher and student evaluations; I\u0026rsquo;ll argue that this is unwise. In contrast, I\u0026rsquo;ll discuss course reform MIT style: select objectives, adopt metrics, experiment, and evaluate; recycle until objectives are achieved. Tellingly, educators call this \u0026ldquo;backward design\u0026rdquo;.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe MIT approach requires us to first discuss what should students learn? I\u0026rsquo;ll then describe our flipped classroom designed to teach strategic thinking and other expert traits in introductory physics. Three lines of evidence of success will be presented and one of failure.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETime remaining, I\u0026rsquo;ll compare learning from MasteringPhysics.com and edX.org \u0026ndash; both used in our blended version of introductory Newtonian mechanics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Course Reform MIT Style: Student Evaluations vs. Scientific Evidence"}],"uid":"27664","created_gmt":"2017-03-13 15:18:39","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:12:24","author":"Alison Morain","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-04-03T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2017-04-03T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-04-03T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-04-03 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-04-03 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-04-03 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"960","name":"physics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Ealison.morain@physics.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}