Pavel M. Polunin

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Transition from undergraduate program to graduate school: is it easy for contemporary students?

Studying in graduate school and helping instructors with undergraduate students in USA have made me feel that there is pretty big jump between the knowledge that average senior (4th year of...

02 February 2014 7,512 10 View

How do you think education will look like in the future?

Science is evolving now at incredible speed making the sphere of human knowledge bigger and bigger every single year. As a result, at some point children will need to learn much more than we learn...

02 February 2014 8,010 33 View

Should university professors also serve as teachers of scientific language and writing?

Nowadays, the role of faculty members gets bigger: professors are not only supposed to teach classes and conduct research. They also raise new generations of scientists from their graduate...

02 February 2014 9,947 15 View

What is the successful way to build a healthy community of students in a class?

Many instructors try to build a student community in the class they teach. In order to do that they form students into groups and give them a variety of assignments for a group work. However, in...

01 January 2014 5,207 5 View

Assessment of student background - is it important?

During my studying at universities I have noticed that only a few instructors assess students background before they proceed to lectures. They did it in the form of bob-graded Intro Exam. Has...

09 September 2013 2,720 9 View

In-class exams or "take home" exams - which of them provide better assessment of students understanding in engineering?

Sometimes it is really hard to decide what type of exam reflects students' conceptual knowledge best. From one point of view, in-class exams assess students' ability to think in fast and efficient...

09 September 2013 5,122 9 View

What would be an effective assessment of students' conceptual knowledge in engineering science?

How would you assess students' understanding of important concepts or big ideas in a course? Any ideas, comments, links will be highly appreciated. Thank you!

09 September 2013 8,792 8 View

Is it possible to obtain the energy of a mechanical pendulum as a function of its action?

It is well known that action can be easily expressed as a function of energy of the pendulum in terms of elliptic integrals. So, the question is if it is possible to obtain the inverse functions...

08 August 2013 8,961 1 View