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Phys 101 course overview - all sections (01-2015)

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1. This document provides information for students taking Physics 101 at the University of British Columbia during the 2014-2015 winter term. It outlines course requirements, materials, grade breakdown, important dates, and research being conducted to analyze learning in collaborative exam groups. 2. To pass the course, students must obtain over 50% in the overall course grade, labs, and weighted midterm and final exams. Important dates include midterms on February 11 and March 19 from 6-7:30pm. 3. The grade breakdown includes components for participation, online homework, labs, midterms, final exam, and flexible exam points. Students are encouraged to complete assigned readings, homework, attend labs, and register for the online platform

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The University of British Columbia Physics 101 2014-2015, Winter, Term 2 All sections version Contact with course instructors: Through Piazza discussion forum (we will not respond to direct emails) Office Hours: To be determined by student vote Materials (available from the bookstore): 1. Text: Physics for Scientists & Engineers: An Interactive Approach by Hawkes, Iqbal, Mansour, Milner-Bolotin and Williams; online access to Enhanced WebAssign (EWA) 2. i>clicker 3. Physics 101 Laboratory Manual Package which includes the Laboratory Manual with Experiment Report Book. You do not need to purchase the yellow Physics Laboratory Notebook. Course Information: Marks, lecture notes, reading assignments and quizzes, and all other relevant material related to Phys 101 will be posted on the Connect site: www.connect.ubc.ca To pass Phys 101, you must meet all three of the following requirements: 1. Obtain a course grade above 50% 2. Attend all labs and obtain an overall lab mark above 50% 3. Obtain a grade above 50% for the weighted sum of the individual components of the two midterms and the final exam. . Important! Students that do not meet requirements 2 or 3 above will be assigned a maximum course grade of 45%. Important Notes: 1. Midterm dates: Feb 11, 6:00-7:30PM and March 19, 6:00- 7:30PM 2. Missed labs: Arrange with Dr. Koster (evko@phas.ubc.ca) a make-up lab during the same week. All labs must be completed to obtain credit for the course. 3. Lab exempt students are still expected to attend tutorials. 4. i>clicker marks: You may miss up to 20% of the questions without penalty, to account for dead batteries, illness, etc. Extra considerations will be given only in case of prolonged illness (doctors note required). 5. You will earn a bonus 0.5% toward your final grade if you complete the course diagnostic at the beginning and the end of the course 6. You will earn a bonus 0.5% toward your final grade if you complete a survey about learning attitudes toward Physicss at the beginning and the end of the course What you need to do in the next week or so Register for Enhanced WebAssign (EWA): http://www.webassign.net/ Your access code comes with the textbook. Full registration instructions can be found on Connect Your Course ID / Class Key is o Section 201: ubc.ca 6565 3022 o Section 202: ubc.ca 5060 6020 o Section 203: ubc.ca 5709 1789 Please register using the exact same name that appears on your student ID card to minimize confusion when we are trying to import your end-of-term EWA grades into Connect. Instead of your student number, please use your Activity ID which can be found in your PHYS101 gradebook on Connect Your EWA access code also gives you access to an eBook version of the textbook (continued on next page) Grade Breakdown: 2% Participation marks (includes iClicker, in- class worksheets and tutorials) 10% Online homework and reading assignments (EWA) 3% Learning object creation (will be described in class and in tutorial) 20% Labs 10% Midterms (each worth 5%: 4.25% for individual component & 0.75% for group component) 50% Final exam (42.5% for individual component & 7.5% for group component) 5% Flexible exam points (points based on your highest test score from the individual component of a midterm or final exam)
(continued from previous page) Buy your textbook: Physical textbook (ISBN 0176706917): Custom edition of Physics for Scientists & Engineers: An Interactive Approach by Hawkes, Iqbal, Mansour, Milner- Bolotin and Williams; access to the EWA online homework system; and a custom student solutions manual. Digital (ebook) textbook available from (http://www.nelsonbrain.com/shop/micro/ubc/phys101). If you buy a used textbook, you can buy your EWA access code through this site. Complete your first reading assignment on EWA: Reading assignments are due each week at 11:59PM on Sunday (Section 202) or Monday (Sections 201 & 203). Your first reading assignment is due Jan. 11th or 12th, respectively. Each reading assignment points you to specific sections of the textbook and asks you to answer a series of multiple choice questions based on those sections. You can submit a late assignment up to 2 days after the due date by requesting an automatically granted extension through EWA. These late submissions will receive a maximum grade of 50%, and after two days they will be given 0%. You will have 2 hours to complete the assignment after requesting the extension. Your lowest two reading assignment scores (including scores of zero) will be dropped when calculating your overall reading assignment average. Complete your first online homework assignment on EWA: Online homework assignments are due each week at 11:59PM on Friday. Your first homework is due Jan. 16. You can submit a late assignment at any time up to the day of the final exam by requesting an automatically granted extension through EWA. These late submissions will receive a maximum grade of 50% up to the day of the final exam, after which they will be given 0%. Your lowest two homework scores (including scores of zero) will be dropped when calculating your overall online homework average. Register your i>clicker: You will need to register the serial number of your i>clicker on Connect Attend your first lab: Labs start the week of January 12- 16. Consult page 1-1 of your lab manual to determine if you should go to Hebb 10, 13 or 32. Physics 101 research study information As part of the ongoing efforts of the Department of Physics and Astronomy to improve the quality of instruction in our courses, your Physics 101 instructors will be studying the learning which takes place in the group portion of the two-stage collaborative group exams used in the midterm assessments for the course. To do this, slightly different versions of the group exams will be created and distributed randomly during the group exams. They will be designed to have as close as possible to the same level of difficulty. Many of the concepts from the two-stage exam will be tested again later in the course and we will compare your performance from the two stages of the collaborative exam to your later performance to look for evidence of learning during the group portion of the two-stage exam. After the two-stage exams, you will be provided with solutions to the questions from all versions of the group exam for future study use. One component of this analysis will involve examining how various factors contribute to the learning which takes place during the two-stage exam. The factors we plan to look at consist of group size, performance of group members in different aspects of the course (homework, laboratory work, exams, conceptual diagnostics), survey results and demographic information available to your instructors when you register in the course. If for any reason, you wish for your anonymized data to not be included in our analyses, you can opt out by contacting Jared Stang (jared@phas.ubc.ca), a research associate in the department of Physics and Astronomy, any time before the final exam date. Please note that opting out does not exempt you from taking part in the exams or course activities, but instead removes your data from being included in the analysis. Please provide him with your full name, UBC student number, the name of your Physics 101 instructor and a subject line of I wish to opt out of the Physics 101 study. After all final course grades have been submitted, the relevant portions of the course gradebooks and results from diagnostics or surveys will be sent to Dr. Stang to be anonymized. Due to this process, you can rest assured that choosing to opt out will have no effect on your grade in the course. In particular, your instructor will not know who has opted out. As part of the course, some bonus marks will be offered in the course for completing surveys or diagnostics. These marks will be made available to you whether you have opted out of the analysis or chosen to have your anonymous data included. We do hope that you will choose to participate so that other students and educators can benefit from our findings as we engage in a process of ongoing instructional improvement. If you have any questions regarding the study or are interested in learning about our findings, please contact Dr. Stang or one of your Physics 101 instructors.

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Phys 101 course overview - all sections (01-2015)

  • 1. The University of British Columbia Physics 101 2014-2015, Winter, Term 2 All sections version Contact with course instructors: Through Piazza discussion forum (we will not respond to direct emails) Office Hours: To be determined by student vote Materials (available from the bookstore): 1. Text: Physics for Scientists & Engineers: An Interactive Approach by Hawkes, Iqbal, Mansour, Milner-Bolotin and Williams; online access to Enhanced WebAssign (EWA) 2. i>clicker 3. Physics 101 Laboratory Manual Package which includes the Laboratory Manual with Experiment Report Book. You do not need to purchase the yellow Physics Laboratory Notebook. Course Information: Marks, lecture notes, reading assignments and quizzes, and all other relevant material related to Phys 101 will be posted on the Connect site: www.connect.ubc.ca To pass Phys 101, you must meet all three of the following requirements: 1. Obtain a course grade above 50% 2. Attend all labs and obtain an overall lab mark above 50% 3. Obtain a grade above 50% for the weighted sum of the individual components of the two midterms and the final exam. . Important! Students that do not meet requirements 2 or 3 above will be assigned a maximum course grade of 45%. Important Notes: 1. Midterm dates: Feb 11, 6:00-7:30PM and March 19, 6:00- 7:30PM 2. Missed labs: Arrange with Dr. Koster (evko@phas.ubc.ca) a make-up lab during the same week. All labs must be completed to obtain credit for the course. 3. Lab exempt students are still expected to attend tutorials. 4. i>clicker marks: You may miss up to 20% of the questions without penalty, to account for dead batteries, illness, etc. Extra considerations will be given only in case of prolonged illness (doctors note required). 5. You will earn a bonus 0.5% toward your final grade if you complete the course diagnostic at the beginning and the end of the course 6. You will earn a bonus 0.5% toward your final grade if you complete a survey about learning attitudes toward Physicss at the beginning and the end of the course What you need to do in the next week or so Register for Enhanced WebAssign (EWA): http://www.webassign.net/ Your access code comes with the textbook. Full registration instructions can be found on Connect Your Course ID / Class Key is o Section 201: ubc.ca 6565 3022 o Section 202: ubc.ca 5060 6020 o Section 203: ubc.ca 5709 1789 Please register using the exact same name that appears on your student ID card to minimize confusion when we are trying to import your end-of-term EWA grades into Connect. Instead of your student number, please use your Activity ID which can be found in your PHYS101 gradebook on Connect Your EWA access code also gives you access to an eBook version of the textbook (continued on next page) Grade Breakdown: 2% Participation marks (includes iClicker, in- class worksheets and tutorials) 10% Online homework and reading assignments (EWA) 3% Learning object creation (will be described in class and in tutorial) 20% Labs 10% Midterms (each worth 5%: 4.25% for individual component & 0.75% for group component) 50% Final exam (42.5% for individual component & 7.5% for group component) 5% Flexible exam points (points based on your highest test score from the individual component of a midterm or final exam)
  • 2. (continued from previous page) Buy your textbook: Physical textbook (ISBN 0176706917): Custom edition of Physics for Scientists & Engineers: An Interactive Approach by Hawkes, Iqbal, Mansour, Milner- Bolotin and Williams; access to the EWA online homework system; and a custom student solutions manual. Digital (ebook) textbook available from (http://www.nelsonbrain.com/shop/micro/ubc/phys101). If you buy a used textbook, you can buy your EWA access code through this site. Complete your first reading assignment on EWA: Reading assignments are due each week at 11:59PM on Sunday (Section 202) or Monday (Sections 201 & 203). Your first reading assignment is due Jan. 11th or 12th, respectively. Each reading assignment points you to specific sections of the textbook and asks you to answer a series of multiple choice questions based on those sections. You can submit a late assignment up to 2 days after the due date by requesting an automatically granted extension through EWA. These late submissions will receive a maximum grade of 50%, and after two days they will be given 0%. You will have 2 hours to complete the assignment after requesting the extension. Your lowest two reading assignment scores (including scores of zero) will be dropped when calculating your overall reading assignment average. Complete your first online homework assignment on EWA: Online homework assignments are due each week at 11:59PM on Friday. Your first homework is due Jan. 16. You can submit a late assignment at any time up to the day of the final exam by requesting an automatically granted extension through EWA. These late submissions will receive a maximum grade of 50% up to the day of the final exam, after which they will be given 0%. Your lowest two homework scores (including scores of zero) will be dropped when calculating your overall online homework average. Register your i>clicker: You will need to register the serial number of your i>clicker on Connect Attend your first lab: Labs start the week of January 12- 16. Consult page 1-1 of your lab manual to determine if you should go to Hebb 10, 13 or 32. Physics 101 research study information As part of the ongoing efforts of the Department of Physics and Astronomy to improve the quality of instruction in our courses, your Physics 101 instructors will be studying the learning which takes place in the group portion of the two-stage collaborative group exams used in the midterm assessments for the course. To do this, slightly different versions of the group exams will be created and distributed randomly during the group exams. They will be designed to have as close as possible to the same level of difficulty. Many of the concepts from the two-stage exam will be tested again later in the course and we will compare your performance from the two stages of the collaborative exam to your later performance to look for evidence of learning during the group portion of the two-stage exam. After the two-stage exams, you will be provided with solutions to the questions from all versions of the group exam for future study use. One component of this analysis will involve examining how various factors contribute to the learning which takes place during the two-stage exam. The factors we plan to look at consist of group size, performance of group members in different aspects of the course (homework, laboratory work, exams, conceptual diagnostics), survey results and demographic information available to your instructors when you register in the course. If for any reason, you wish for your anonymized data to not be included in our analyses, you can opt out by contacting Jared Stang (jared@phas.ubc.ca), a research associate in the department of Physics and Astronomy, any time before the final exam date. Please note that opting out does not exempt you from taking part in the exams or course activities, but instead removes your data from being included in the analysis. Please provide him with your full name, UBC student number, the name of your Physics 101 instructor and a subject line of I wish to opt out of the Physics 101 study. After all final course grades have been submitted, the relevant portions of the course gradebooks and results from diagnostics or surveys will be sent to Dr. Stang to be anonymized. Due to this process, you can rest assured that choosing to opt out will have no effect on your grade in the course. In particular, your instructor will not know who has opted out. As part of the course, some bonus marks will be offered in the course for completing surveys or diagnostics. These marks will be made available to you whether you have opted out of the analysis or chosen to have your anonymous data included. We do hope that you will choose to participate so that other students and educators can benefit from our findings as we engage in a process of ongoing instructional improvement. If you have any questions regarding the study or are interested in learning about our findings, please contact Dr. Stang or one of your Physics 101 instructors.