We continue to point out issues suggesting that college courses are an active part of bias against marginalized demographic groups. 🎢 #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd #AcadmicSky

Cassandra Paul@cassandrapaul.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@djphysicswebb.bsky.social, Mary Chessey and I have a newly accepted paper on uncollected test item responses on open-ended physics exam questions! Blank responses on exams are missing data, not measurements of physics knowledge or skills. Read on for details... Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2606.05473

@djphysicswebb.bsky.social, Mary Chessey and I have a newly accepted paper on uncollected test item responses on open-ended physics exam questions! Blank responses on exams are missing data, not measurements of physics knowledge or skills. Read on for details... Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2606.05473

Missing Data on Physics Exams: Demographic Patterns, Course-Level Predictions, and Implications for Equity

In a previous quantitative retrospective study we showed that different demographic groups of students leave different numbers of problems blank on physics exams, leading to inequities in course outco...

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@cassandrapaul.bsky.social and I show that employing undergraduate Learning Assistants in introductory courses may help smooth many students' paths through the university and increase STEM graduation rates. arxiv.org/pdf/2607.27006 🎢 #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd #AcadmicSky

Firstly, our family business was running one of the largest GF & allergy friendly bakeries in the world. We had about 160 employees & 150,000 ft² of production. 4 - 130ft tunnel ovens. Real deal stuff

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

Check him out, he does a little bit everything, I especially love his movie reviews ;-)

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 11mo ago

okay; I acknowledge and admire your resistance to my (more or less inadequate) marketing attempts...

@cassandrapaul.bsky.social Issues we might want to think through and deal with sometime.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 12mo ago

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

Our new research indicates that the gender gap in intro physics is an artifact correlated with the “stakes” associated with physics exams and is therefore NOT due to differences in preparation or understanding. 🧪🧵 #acadmicsky #HigherEd #EduSky #STEMed link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

High-stakes exams inflate a gender gap and contribute to systematic grading errors in one introductory physics series

A study in introductory physics suggests high-stakes exams are causing a gender gap, rather than measuring it.

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Research suggesting how an exam gender gap can be inflated from zero up to roughly 1/3 of a grade point simply by increasing the stakes of your exams. Can't help thinking of gaps on a different high stakes exam, the SAT, when I see results like these. #iTeachPhysics 🎢 #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd

Cassandra Paul@cassandrapaul.bsky.social · last yr.

Proud of the work I published with @djphysicswebb.bsky.social . Gender Gap in intro physics is eliminated when employing retake exams because women do better on the FIRST try - suggesting exam STAKES (not differences in preparation/understanding) explain gender gap. 🧪 link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

Research suggesting how an exam gender gap can be inflated from zero up to roughly 1/3 of a grade point simply by increasing the stakes of your exams. Can't help thinking of gaps on a different high stakes exam, the SAT, when I see results like these. #iTeachPhysics 🎢 #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd

Cassandra Paul@cassandrapaul.bsky.social · last yr.

Proud of the work I published with @djphysicswebb.bsky.social . Gender Gap in intro physics is eliminated when employing retake exams because women do better on the FIRST try - suggesting exam STAKES (not differences in preparation/understanding) explain gender gap. 🧪 link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

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Higher ed should be essentially free. #iTeachPhysics 🎢 #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last yr.

I'm a professor at the flagship university for the fourth whitest state in the US. Over 80% of our students are white. The biggest barrier to access here is that due to lack of state funding, we have top 10 highest tuition per capita of public unis in the country. We also have a food pantry.

Huh, @cassandrapaul.bsky.social‬ and my paper that showed that demographic biases in physics classes can be removed was referenced by a Sociology professor in an article that showed up in at least 39 different publications yesterday. #iTeachPhysics 🎢 #Physics ⚛️ #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd

@anthonypaik.bsky.social · last yr.

The costs and benefits of DEI by sociologist Rodney Coates. Beyond the backlash: What evidence shows about the economic impact of DEI theconversation.com/beyond-the-b...

Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star. PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇

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Moira Donegan@moiradonegan.bsky.social · last yr.

Matt Yglesias endorses the theory that men are naturally more inclined toward extreme intelligence over on the other site.

Yay, science!

Stacey D. Smith@iochromaland.bsky.social · 2y ago

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

Giovanni Colantonio@marioprime.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hey RickyP. Saw your high scores on Aer Lingus’ in-flight version of Tetris. Just want to let you know that I have fucking embarrassed your ass so fucking bad dude.

Re-posting and including picture showing no gender gap on low stakes in-term exams and significant negative gender gap on medium stakes in-term exams. Gender gap on the high stakes final exam is 50% larger than on the medium stakes exams. #iTeachPhysics 🎢 #Physics ⚛️ #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd

David Webb@djphysicswebb.bsky.social · 2y ago

@cassandrapaul.bsky.social and my new preprint describes how high stakes exams in introductory physics can make it seem like there is a gender gap in learning/understanding physics when, in reality, there is none. arxiv.org/pdf/2504.09418 #iTeachPhysics 🎢 #Physics ⚛️ #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd

Everyone is weird. Being weird is what makes us human. We are the apes who stopped, thought and embraced weirdness. Find someone who accepts that you are weird, without judgement.

@cassandrapaul.bsky.social and my new preprint describes how high stakes exams in introductory physics can make it seem like there is a gender gap in learning/understanding physics when, in reality, there is none. arxiv.org/pdf/2504.09418 #iTeachPhysics 🎢 #Physics ⚛️ #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd

Shelly-Ann racing in her kid's Parents Day race at the school is the funniest thing I've seen all week LMAO

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

Titled this "Super cute adorable Oak Titmouse" in my folder. I was not wrong. Also - TAKE THAT, All About Birds who describe them, "Nondescript save for its crest, the Oak Titmouse might not wow many bird watchers at first sight." Nondescript my tail feathers! #birds #becurious

As computing capabilities increase, the number of digits we'll be able to calculate will also increase. I think what's so poetic about this: It's a process that began with the first civilizations and is a thread that weaves through the whole of human history. It's our story as a species.

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 3y ago

Happy #PiDay 2024! Let's talk about the history of pi (π) and the methods used to approximate it! We start with the Babylonians (~2000 BCE), who used π = 3 for architectural projects, or in at least one instance, π = 25⁄8 = 3.128, which is within 0.5% of the actual value.

We wrote this open letter to our students reaffirming our educational commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion and access (DEIA). Faculty friends, if this resonates with you, and you feel comfortable doing so, please consider signing this letter, and sharing it widely. medium.com/@dearstudent...

At some point the opposition needs to say what is happening here: Donald Trump is a tyrant in the full sense of the term, an American fascist dictator who believes the law flows directly from his command. And he is also a deeply unwell, unfit, and criminal man with nonsensical whims

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦