Wagner Richter

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[The Journal of Physical Chemistry @JPhysChem]

How to use math to unveil the hidden secrets of 2D materials. @RichterWe
https://t.co/Cl11uW86Fq

[Flávio Costa @flaviocostaf]

@SF_Moro Prova do ENEn elaborada por Moro:

Onde está situado o Agreste Cearense?
Quem foi Edite Piá?
10,1% tem três dígitos. 101% tem quantos dígitos?
Conge ou Conje?
Conjugue o verbo depedrar.

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@zerotoledo Poxa, se juntem em um novo projeto e sigam com a mesma tocada!

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

Thank you very much!!

[Carla Cunha @cunhascarla]

@RichterWe @LatinXChem Amazing work!

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@ricestrada @LatinXChem Indeed. My main research area deals with a topic that seems to be easy to understand, and nonetheless, nearly no undergraduate textbook explores it, nor do my fellow researchers care much about it. I don't understand why chemists struggle with it whereas physicists do not.

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

Dear @LatinXChem fellows! In "Preparing vs. Performing", we notice that poor scoring of brazilian students in final exams is not always due to poor preparation, but also to poor management of emotions (anxiety and nervousness) in the exam day. #LatinXChem #LatinXChemEdu #Edu26

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@ricestrada @LatinXChem (8) He writes about it in his biography. Unfortunately, 70 years later, many of those problems are still here. Therefore, the roots of my actual problem here seem to be much deeper: changing a culture in which the student has been immersed for the last 10 to 15 years...

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@ricestrada @LatinXChem (7) At the moment, I am trying to use Flipped Learning to help them engage in learning on a weekly basis rather than just before the exams. But I'm afraid that this is not enough. Feynman visited Brazil in the 1950s and pointed out various problems in out educational system.

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@ricestrada @LatinXChem (6) I'm not saying ADHD is not real. It is real and we need to handle it. But what is not real is the epidemic of ADHD that seems to surround us. There are people who HAVE ADHD and people who THINK they have ADHD, and these are different people.

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@ricestrada @LatinXChem (5) Therefore, many students think they have ADHD or other similar disorders whereas they do not. Brazilian psychiatrist Chris Dunker says that ADHD is an "industrialization of failure", meaning that there are people who cannot accept pure failure, and blame fictitious ADHD for

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@ricestrada @LatinXChem (4) Your second question is delightful. In this questionnaire, the student is just asked about the condition. You then see that the score is not only high (14%) but noticeably above the accepted average rate (2.5%) of ADHD documented in Brazil by Brazilian Medical Associations.

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@ricestrada @LatinXChem (3) Still on question 1., the exam contained both qualitative and quantitative problems. I have not considered the specific scores of each problem separately, but this is an excellent idea for refining our findings. Thanks!

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@ricestrada @LatinXChem (2) Moreover, I believe the fact that the exam was indeed not difficult increased the sensation of failure, or "missed opportunity". We feel that it hurts more to fail in an easy task than in a challenging one.

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@ricestrada @LatinXChem (1) Hi Ricardo! Thanks a lot for the interest! According to Fig 1, the level of the problems was indeed very low. Actually, I could say that they were closer to a high school level than an undergraduate level, in terms of complexity.

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@ciencia1M @LatinXChem (2) Baby steps, every day, not only with studying, but also with workouts, meditation, healthy eating... all these things, together, help with anxiety too. So the thing is: how to build other good habits that will aid my good habit of studying better?

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@ciencia1M @LatinXChem (1) Hi! I like very much the quote "the superpower of doing little things everyday." Indeed, we need to embrace little but daily habits just as @simonsinek says: "doing a single 9h workout does not make you fit, but doing 20 min every day works fine."

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@fyq_abel @LatinXChem (5) We are also noticing more and more top elite athletes admiting they face anxiety, one example being @naomiosaka withdrawing from Roland Garros 2021. She was brave of admiting that; when will we admit our top and even not-top students need aid with this issue?

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@fyq_abel @LatinXChem (4) We need to aid students in "preparing for performing", meaning be prepared to face nervounsness and anxiety, to learn how to overcome that. @jockowillink says that Seals learn "how to move withouth think", so nervousness have less or null effect on their performances.

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@fyq_abel @LatinXChem (3) Finally, yes, 22 answered they studied less than required, but teachers most often think this is THE main reason behing the the poor scoring. We need to recognize that students might feel anxiety, and then just preparing is not enough to a good final scoring.

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@fyq_abel @LatinXChem (2) These are freshmen, so it is reasonable to assume the anxiety and nervounsness is not related just to Chemistry, but also to other tough disciplines as well (calculus, physics); it would be interesting to test the students within these other disciplines as well, and compare;

[Wagner Richter @RichterWe]

@fyq_abel @LatinXChem (1) Hi Abel, thank you for asking! Well, the sample is larger than most "large enough" criteria, because the students' answers are treated as truly independent from one another. Moreover, we could re-test in different semesters to see if the distribution of answers mantains