Speaker
Veronique Petit
(University of Delaware)
Description
Retention of physics and astronomy majors at the University of Delaware has been a long-standing issue. We will describe the course structure that we have adopted for a section of introductory physics dedicated to students in our physics BS, BA, and astronomy BA programs. In addition to implementing specification-based grading, we have also explored the addition of computational physics through the use of the textbook “Matter and Interactions”. We will report on our experience in this course, on the feedback from our students, and on some of the problems we are still facing (with the hope of gathering suggestions for improvement by the other participants!)
Primary author
Veronique Petit
(University of Delaware)
