PhysicsStop wishes you a Happy Christmas and peaceful 2014, as he ponders whether England will put up a better show than the West Indies. Enjoy the beach, the cricket, the weather, or all three. Back early in the New Year
Continue readingMonth: December 2013
Evaluating Teaching the hard-nosed numbers way
Recently there's been a bit of discussion in our Faculty on how to get a reliable evaluation of people's teaching. The traditional approach is with the appraisal. At the end of each paper the students get to answer various questions on the teacher's performance on a five-point Likert Scale (i.e. 'Always', 'Usually', 'Sometimes', 'Seldom', 'Never'.) […]
Continue readingAssessment goes wrong
I absolutely have to put this on my blog. I found it in a presentation put together by Ako Aotearoa drawing from the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative. First, the content of the lecture. The Montillation of Traxoline. It is very important that you learn about traxoline. Traxoline is a new form of zionter. It […]
Continue readingHeat and water and making nappies
In the lab, my summer student has been working on a small device to keep a small piece of equipment at a stable temperature. It uses a Peltier device – in essence it's a solid-state heat pump. Pass through current one way, and heat is drawn from the top surface to the bottom; pass current […]
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