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Physics Students in Summer Program Achieve Major Gains

September 16, 2022

Average Scores on Widely Used Assessment More than Double Physics students from rural Mississippi high schools who attended the Global Teaching Project’s Advanced STEM Summer Preparatory Program achieved “statistically significant” gains, according to independent assessments conducted by the Center for Research and Evaluation (CERE) at the University of Mississippi. Physics students were tested at the beginning and end of their 8-day Summer Program sessions to assess their progress.  The students’ mean score more than doubled on the tests, which were adapted from the Force Concept Inventory (FCI), a widely used examination recognized by the American Association of Physics Teachers as …

Megan Kenny, Global Teaching Project tutor, from the University of Virginia

Megan Kenny, a tutor from the University of Virginia, shares her experiences from our 2020 Winter Program

February 21, 2020
My name is Megan Kenny, and I am a fourth year (senior) at the University of Virginia. My major is Astronomy-Physics, but I also love to take poetry writing classes and classes in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies. I also do research on the Sun (specifically studying the hot gas out in the Sun’s atmosphere-called the corona- and in the expanding corona-called the solar wind). The Sun is very quiet right now, meaning there isn’t much energetic activity going on, but it’s still good to understand these ‘background conditions.’ More violent solar activity can include the ejection …