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Losing it: The Influence of Losses on Individuals' Normalized Gains
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Kelly Miller, Nathaniel Lasry, Orad Reshef, Jason E. Dowd, Ives Araujo, and Eric Mazur
Researchers and practitioners routinely use the normalized gain (Hake, 1998) to evaluate the effectiveness of instruction. Normalized gain (g) has been useful in distinguishing active engagement from traditional instruction. Recently, concerns were raised about normalized gain because it implicitly neglects retention (or, equivalently, "losses"). That is to say, g assumes no right answers become wrong after instruction. We analyze individual standardized gain (G) and loss (L) in data collected at Harvard University during the first five years that Peer Instruction was developed. We find that losses are non-zero, and that losses are larger among students with lower pre-test performances. These preliminary results warrant further research, particularly with different student populations, to establish whether the failure to address loss changes the conclusions drawn from g.
Physics Education Research Conference 2010
Part of the PER Conference series Portland, Oregon: July 21-22, 2010 Volume 1289, Pages 229-232
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![]() K. Miller, N. Lasry, O. Reshef, J. Dowd, I. Araujo, and E. Mazur, Losing it: The Influence of Losses on Individuals' Normalized Gains, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, 2010, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10460&DocID=1920>.
![]() Miller, K., Lasry, N., Reshef, O., Dowd, J., Araujo, I., & Mazur, E. (2010, July 21-22). Losing it: The Influence of Losses on Individuals' Normalized Gains. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon. Retrieved December 1, 2023, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10460&DocID=1920
![]() Miller, K, N. Lasry, O. Reshef, J. Dowd, I. Araujo, and E. Mazur. "Losing it: The Influence of Losses on Individuals' Normalized Gains." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, July 21-22, 2010. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10460&DocID=1920 (accessed 1 December 2023).
![]() Miller, Kelly, Nathaniel Lasry, Orad Reshef, Jason Dowd, Ives Araujo, and Eric Mazur. "Losing it: The Influence of Losses on Individuals' Normalized Gains." Physics Education Research Conference 2010. Portland, Oregon: 2010. 229-232 Vol. 1289 of PER Conference. 1 Dec. 2023 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10460&DocID=1920>.
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Author = "Kelly Miller and Nathaniel Lasry and Orad Reshef and Jason Dowd and Ives Araujo and Eric Mazur",
Title = {Losing it: The Influence of Losses on Individuals' Normalized Gains},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2010},
Pages = {229-232},
Address = {Portland, Oregon},
Series = {PER Conference},
Volume = {1289},
Month = {July 21-22},
Year = {2010}
}
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