PHYSICS 192M
Methods and Application of Collaborative Learning Theory in Physical Sciences
Seminar.
Fall 2026: 1 section. It is open. The oldest of these readings was 82 minutes ago.
Grades
3.95
Average grade awarded in PHYSICS 192M. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
97%
of the 645 letter grades
D, F or W
0.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 645 grades over 13 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 13 terms ran 3.80 to 4.00.
Historical grades for SAMANI, JOSHUA FRED, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A 373 · 96.6%
- A- 1 · 0.3%
- B 5 · 1.3%
- B- 4 · 1.0%
- C 2 · 0.5%
- D 1 · 0.3%
- I 2 of 388
Percentages are of the 386 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: incompletes (I).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAMANI, JOSHUA FRED reviews ↗ | 3.95 | 3.95 | 386 | 8 | 97% | - | Open, 121 seats left |
| SHAKED, SHANNA reviews ↗ | 3.94 | 3.94 | 310 | 6 | 96% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
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Workload and assignments
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What comes first
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Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Seminar, two hours; laboratory, six hours. Requisites: one course from 1A, 1B, 1C, 5A, 5B, 5C, or 131, course 192S (may be taken concurrently), and at least one term of prior experience in same course in which collaborative learning theory is practiced and refined under supervision of instructors. With instructor guidance, students apply pedagogical principles based on current education research, assist with the development of innovative instructional materials, and receive frequent feedback on their progress. May be repeated four times for credit. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Sem 1 R 3:30pm-4:45pmOpen
Samani, J.F. and Shaked, S.
3.95predicted, this instructor · 386 grades121 seats left. 29 of 150 enrolled low risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 32 and 71 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 66 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
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What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Sem 1 · Samani, J.F. and Shaked, S. · 29 of 150 enrolled
Filled by 29 over about 1 month
How readings and alerts work
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