Overcoming Common Conceptual and Reasoning Difficulties in Cosmology: A Lecture-Tutorial Approach

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For the past two years, we have conducted fundamental research into Astro 101 students' conceptual and reasoning difficulties in cosmology. To date, we have analyzed the responses of over 2000 students from institutions across the United States to questions on the Big Bang, the expansion and evolution of the Universe, and the evidence for dark matter. Our findings have informed the development of a new suite of cosmology Lecture-Tutorials designed to increase students’ understanding of these common cosmology topics. In this talk, we present our key findings with regard to Astro 101 students’ common learning difficulties with studying cosmology and provide evidence showing that the new Lecture-Tutorials help students achieve larger learning gains than lecture alone.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0833364 and Grant No. 0715517, a CCLI Phase III Grant for the Collaboration of Astronomy Teaching Scholars (CATS). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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