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Christensen, Warren M.; Thompson, John R. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
By analysis of student use of mathematics in responses to conceptual physics questions, as well as analogous math questions stripped of physical meaning, we have previously found evidence that students often enter upper-level physics courses lacking the assumed prerequisite mathematics knowledge and/or the ability to apply it productively in a…
Descriptors: Physics, Mathematics, Fundamental Concepts, Mathematical Concepts
Springuel, R. Padraic; Wittman, Michael C.; Thompson, John R. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2007
We use clustering, an analysis method not presently common to the physics education research community, to group and characterize student responses to written questions about two-dimensional kinematics. Previously, clustering has been used to analyze multiple-choice data; we analyze free-response data that includes both sketches of vectors and…
Descriptors: Physics, Statistical Analysis, Multivariate Analysis, College Students
Wittmann, Michael C.; Morgan, Jeffrey T.; Feeley, Roger E. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2006
We report on the development of students' ideas of probability and probability density in a University of Maine laboratory-based general education physics course called "Intuitive Quantum Physics". Students in the course are generally math phobic with unfavorable expectations about the nature of physics and their ability to do it. We…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Science Laboratories, Probability, Science Instruction