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| Abstract Title: | Bridging the gap: a TYC-FYC collaboration to understand students’ connections of energy topics and climate change |
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| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Abstract: | In the physics education research (PER) community, collaboration between two-year colleges (TYC) and four-year colleges (FYC) is little to nonexistent. Taking a step to bridge this gap, researchers from a large New England private FYC and a Pacific Northwest TYC collaborated on understanding students' connections between climate change and the energy topics learned in introductory physics classes. A lesson and survey designed to explicitly tie these topics is already established at the TYC curriculum, and was now applied at the FYC for the first time. We surveyed students from two algebra-based, studio-physics courses at the FYC. One of the classes received the lesson intervention, and a qualitative analysis was used to compare results. We discuss the results from the perspective of a former student and PER researcher from the TYC, who compared not just the results from the collected data, but how the different environment might have impacted the work. |
| Footnote: | Supported by the National Science Foundation under grants PHY-2244795 and DUE-2120980. |
| Session Time: | Poster Session B |
| Poster Number: | B-148 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Larissa Carter South Seattle College Seattle, WA 98106 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Manher Jariwala (He/His), Department of Physics, Boston University. |
