Overview of New Content in Mastering Physics

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Overview of New Content in Mastering Physics
Engaging Students with New Online Homework
Activities Resources

• Scott Hildreth
• Astronomy Physics Chabot College Hayward, CA

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Goals for Our Session

• Using Mastering Physics
• New Content
• PhET simulations
• Enhanced End-of-Chapter Questions
• Math Remediation Problems
• Video Tutor Narrated Clips
• Getting Started
• Your feedback questions are welcome throughout!

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Using Mastering Physics

• Online Homework System with 24/7 availability
• Great Range of Problems, Tutorials, Quizzes
• Dynamic, context-specific hints feedback
• Rich Diagnostics by student/class
• Enormous elasticity for use in different ways,
  for different types of students.

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Ways I Use Mastering

• Required weekly homework assignments
• In-class collaborative group work
• Lecture doing problems together
• Exam Preparation
• Extra Credit Remedial Help

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New ContentPhET Simulations

• Tons of Interactive, creative problems
• http//phet.colorado.edu/
• Suitable for labs and discussions
• Implemented in Mastering with hints
• Results are tracked

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PhET Simulations
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PhET Simulations

• Some thoughts to share
• Try these first in class
• Give more credit to match length
• Edit (with simple editor) to reduce time
• Encourage students to explore
• Wonderful surprises from students!

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New ContentEnhanced EOC Questions

• My largest student wish?
• The end of chapter questions dont have hints!
  I dont know how to start them!
• EEOCs are a bridge between tutorials and standard
  chapter problems.

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New ContentEnhanced EOC Questions

• Available for a few problems in each chapter (in
  some books)
• One key hint available
• Results are tracked

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New ContentEnhanced EOC Questions
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New ContentEnhanced EOC Questions
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EEOC Results (preliminary)

• Standard EOC problem from YF 13th ed. 4.10
  without the enhancement95.2 correct0.9
  unfinished3.9 requested solution0.80 wrong
  answers per student
• EEOC results from my class (19/22 students trying
  the problem)100 correct answer0 requested
  answer0.53 wrong answers per student0.58 hints
  per student (so some DID open it!)
• Fewer wrong answers per student, slightly
  better overall success rate.

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New ContentMath Remediation

• Available for many problems
• Automatic link to math help
• Math XML interface
• Results not tracked

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Math Remediation
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Math Remediation
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Video Clips!

• Video Tutor Demonstrations
• Predictive Questions
• Assignable in Mastering
• Video Tutor Narrated Examples
• Work through Textbook exs

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Video Tutor Demonstrations in STUDY AREA
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Video Tutor Demonstrations
Interactive Questions
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Followup Questions with Video Tutor in Mastering
Interactive Questions
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Video Tutors for Examples
Step-by-Step development with narration
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Getting Started!
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Familiarity breeds success

• Over time, you will learn to incorporate
• New Tutorial Problems with effective hints
• Which problems need additional hints
• Which problems dont work as well
• New ways to use the system for your classes and
  students.
• Be patient, explore, experiment!

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Questions? Discussion?

• Check out a resource list research
• http//www.chabotcollege.edu/faculty/shildreth/mas
  tering
• Login to my classes to look around
• Email me with questions!
• shildreth_at_chabotcollege.edu

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Cartoons.

• Images reprinted in the online presentation and
  available online were borrowed with permission
  from "e-mail.this.book", The Cartoon Bank, Alfred
  A. Knopf, NY, 1996.