Specifications-Based Grading for Assessing Student Learning
Kristi Closser, California State University-Fresno
Kristi Closser, California State University-Fresno What is the difference between a student who receives a 79% in a course and one who gets 80%? At my university, we do not have +/- designations associated with ...

The success of implementing a MATLAB project in a Medical Physics course
David Sterling, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
David Sterling, Radiation Oncology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Implementing computational projects in the classroom has helped my students understand material better and more quickly than they did before ...

Computation in Civil Engineering
Julie Fogarty, California State University-Sacramento
Julie Fogarty, California State University-Sacramento Most of the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum is spent doing hand calculations based on theories that lead to closed-form and relatively simple ...

Computation and Assessment
Michael Groves, California State University-Fullerton
Michael Groves, Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University-Fullerton I teach quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, kinetics and statistical mechanics. These courses typically have problems that are very ...

Using Matlab in Applied Math Courses
Melisa Hendrata, California State University-Los Angeles
Melisa Hendrata, Mathematics, California State University-Los Angeles Drawing from my own experience in academia and also those of my former students who are able to enter the industry, computational skill is one ...

Never Too Late: Developing Quantitative Thinking Skills in an Upper-Division Biology Course
Michael Wright, California State University-Sacramento
Michael Wright, Biological Sciences, California State University-Sacramento "I am not a math person" is a common refrain from students in my upper-division Systemic Physiology course. This course draws ...

Teaching Computational Physics to upper level undergraduates
Ali Tabei, University of Northern Iowa
Seyed Mohiaddeen Ali Tabei, University of Northern Iowa In this course, students learn how to employ computational methods to solve advanced problems in physics and other fields of science. The objective is to ...

"The Gentle Art of Data Science:" Increasing comfort with computation
Andrew Fischer, university of tasmania
Andrew Fischer, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania The extraction and interpretation of information from vast quantities of data is now a fundamental part of advanced inquiry across ...

The importance of programming skills in improving health across the lifespan
Manuel Hernandez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Manuel Hernandez, Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign As the oldest of the old continue to become an increasingly larger percentage of our population, challenges due to ...

Incorporating MATLAB in Applied Mathematics Courses
Dong Zhou, California State University-Los Angeles
Dong Zhou, Mathematics, California State University-Los Angeles As a researcher in the field of computational mathematics, I believe that numerical computation/simulation is a vital part in solving real world (and ...