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The Impact Of Prior Exposure To Physics On Students' Transition To Flipped Classrooms With Active Learning, Johnny Gonzalez

Graduate College Dissertations and Theses

The pedagogical approach of the flipped classroom with an active learning model shows great benefit for all students in many disciplines. This study explored the possibility that certain subsets of students may have varying benefits from this model. In this study, we used survey questions to categorize students and analysis of the Forced Concept Inventory (FCI) scores, including normalized gain (NG), to measure learning improvement. In particular, we used a questionnaire with two questions that were used to partition each sub-group. The first group consisted of students that have varying levels of physics knowledge and the second group consisted of …