{"id":368,"date":"2018-02-10T02:02:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/?page_id=368"},"modified":"2018-03-19T01:56:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T20:56:44","slug":"saturdays-plenary-gender-issues-and-equity-in-introductory-physics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/?page_id=368","title":{"rendered":"Saturday lunchtime plenary &#8211; gender issues &#038; equity in introductory physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saturday 10 March, 12:05 &#8211; 12:55<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Introductory Physics\u2026With an Eye to Inclusion<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nRachel Henderson, West Virginia University <\/p>\n<p>Diversity and inclusion has been a concern for the physics community for 50 years. Despite significant efforts including the American Physical Society (APS) Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) and the APS Bridge Program, women, African Americans, and Hispanics continue to be substantially underrepresented in the physics profession. Similar efforts within the field of engineering, whose students make up the majority of students in the introductory calculus-based physics courses, have also met with limited success. With the introduction of research-based instruments such as the Force Concept Inventory (FCI), differences in performance by gender began to be reported. As researchers, we have yet to come to an agreement as to why these \u201cgender gaps\u201d exist in the various conceptual inventories that are widely used in physics education research and or how to reduce the gaps. <\/p>\n<p>Rachel Henderson obtained her PhD in Physics Education Research (PER) from West Virginia University. Working with Drs. John and Gay Stewart, she has focused her research on how classroom diversity and inclusion impact scores on conceptual physics assessments in the introductory physics classroom. Her research has demonstrated that there are features of PER conceptual instruments that are not equally fair for men and women and has suggested ways to remove this unfairness.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_437\" style=\"width: 6010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/plenarycrowd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-437\" src=\"https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/plenarycrowd.jpg\" alt=\"audience at lunchtime plenary presentation\" width=\"6000\" height=\"1703\" class=\"size-full wp-image-437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/plenarycrowd.jpg 6000w, https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/plenarycrowd-300x85.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/plenarycrowd-768x218.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/plenarycrowd-1024x291.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/plenarycrowd-250x71.jpg 250w, https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/plenarycrowd-150x43.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6000px) 100vw, 6000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">lunchtime plenary on Saturday 10 March 2018, Next Generation Physics Teaching, Marshall University, Huntington, WV<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 10 March, 12:05 &#8211; 12:55 Introductory Physics\u2026With an Eye to Inclusion Rachel Henderson, West Virginia University Diversity and inclusion has been a concern for the physics community for 50 years. Despite significant efforts including the American Physical Society (APS) Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) and the APS\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/?page_id=368\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-368","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6uB00-5W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368\/revisions\/438"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngpt.aaptsections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}