PD Hours
1.00
Why Don’t Girls Think They Are Good at Physics?
In studies ranging from middle school to college, girls and women consistently report lower self-efficacy and confidence in physics than their male peers, even when they have just as much academic success. One reason for that is the ways that students send messages about what it means to be good at physics and who is good at physics while they are working in small groups. In this webinar, I will share my research based on small group video from my physics classroom to try and understand how students recognize each other for being good at physics, what kinds of contributions students recognize each other for, and how that fits with gender differences in who sees themselves as good at physics. I will also discuss the implications these results have for how to structure and support small group work as a teacher, an issue especially important with approaches like Modeling Instruction where students spend significant time in small groups.
Presented by martha Stoeckel
7 PM ET