Dead tree and Online Quizzes: Better together?

HatTip to the awesome David Wilson (Chem, La Trobe):

I thought you might be interested in the following content published on the ACS Web Editions Platform:
 Pencil–Paper Learning Should Be Combined with Online Homework Software David B. Smithrud and Allan R. Pinhas J. Chem. Educ., Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/ed500594g
Publication Date (Web): October 12, 2015 Copyright © 2015, American Chemical Society http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed500594g 

Differences between physics discipline research and physics education research.......

NatureJournals: How scientists fool themselves – and how they can stop

Humans are remarkably good at self-deception. But growing concern about reproducibility is driving many researchers to seek ways to fight their own worst instincts.

Nature | 07 October 2015 | 10.1038/526182a


http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/526182a

Physics education for the Home Schooled

The home schooling community is growing. Many parents have good reasons for not sending their kids to school- for example, when they have a chronic, serious illness:

 Missing School | Keeping Seriously Sick Kids Connected

 http://missingschool.org.au/

In other cases, they may simply live too far away:

School of the Air

http://www.assoa.nt.edu.au/

Home Education Association (HEA) 

http://www.hea.edu.au/

More controversially, some parents whose kids have Autism spectrum disorders choose to home school. 

http://www.amaze.org.au/uploads/2013/12/Amaze-Info-Sheet-Schooling-Options-for-Children-with-ASD-rev-Dec-2013.pdf

How do homeschooled kids go with learning phyiscs? For example, how could they do experiments? Is this something the AIP should be supporting? 

Let me know your thoughts.

Recent articles about the 'leaky STEM pipeline'

NYTimes: What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/what-really-keeps-women-out-of-tech.html?smid=nytcore-iphone-share&smprod=nytcore-iphone

"​Star Wars​"​ posters and cheesy T.V. shows can do real-world damage.






The Atlantic: Thin Ice: Stereotype Threat and Black College Students - 

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1999/08/thin-ice-stereotype-threat-and-black-college-students/304663/

Leadership booklets

 PPhillipsKPA  are a management consultancy which specializes in education and training. They made an interesting presentation at the Australian Council of the Deans of Science Teaching and Learning Conference, and have a range of publications about leadership in teaching and learning and research which may be very useful for academics trying to balance everything.

ETMST - are you involved?

Hi Folks,

there is a well-funded push from the chief scientist to get academics of Education and Science to work together to help better prepare science teachers to hit the classroom running. The umbrella Acronym is ETMST, and the Victorian node is ReMSTEP . There is a lot of interesting activity linking scientists, schools,  and pre-service teachers.

If you are looking for support and ideas for your educational projects, have a look and consider how you might involve pre-service teachers- especially  if you are at one of the funded universities (La Trobe, Melbourne, Deakin or Monash in Victoria). The ETMST link above will put you in touch with the equivalents in your state.

Curriculum mapping tools

There are a number of curriculum mapping tools being made so that people can check that their  Learning Outcomes are actually assessed. Here are a few that I found-has anyone got any more ?

National Academic Standards Statement for agriculture curriculum mapping tool

Deakin Nutritional Sciences curriculum mapping tool


Curtin Tools for comprehensive course review

Consider publishing in IJISME......

If you are not sure where to publish your educational story, then IJISME might be the go. There are regular special issues, and the editing team is friendly and supportive (including the awesome Stephanie Beames). The latest special issue is 'The link between tertiary science and employability'.