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Robertson, Amy D.; Goodhew, Lisa M.; Scherr, Rachel E.; Heron, Paula R. L. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Existing research identifying common student ideas about forces focuses on students' misunderstandings, misconceptions, and difficulties. In this paper, we characterize student thinking in terms of resources, framing student thinking as continuous with formal physics. Based on our analysis of 2048 written responses to conceptual questions, we…
Descriptors: College Students, Knowledge Level, Physics, Scientific Concepts
Gutmann, Brianne; Gladding, Gary; Lundsgaard, Morten; Stelzer, Timothy – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
Encouraged by positive clinical results at the University of Illinois, mastery-style homework was integrated into a large semester-long preparatory physics course via an online homework system that used narrated animated video solutions as correctives. This paper discusses the impact and evolution of the homework in its first two years. The first…
Descriptors: Physics, Homework, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses
Morphew, Jason W.; Mestre, Jose P.; Kang, Hyeon-Ah; Chang, Hua-Hua; Fabry, Gregory – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
Prior research has established that students often underprepare for midterm examinations yet remain overconfident in their proficiency. Research concerning the testing effect has demonstrated that utilizing testing as a study strategy leads to higher performance and more accurate confidence compared to more common study strategies such as…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Physics, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses
Sabo, Hannah C.; Goodhew, Lisa M.; Robertson, Amy D. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
We report some of the common, prevalent conceptual resources that students used to reason about energy, based on our analysis of written responses to questions given to 807 introductory physics students. These resources include, for example, associating forms of energy with indicators, relating forces and energy, and representing energy…
Descriptors: Energy, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses, Physics
Fakcharoenphol, Witat; Morphew, Jason W.; Mestre, José P. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
Students' ability to effectively study for an exam, or to manage their time during an exam, is related to their metacognitive capacity. Prior research has demonstrated the effective use of metacognitive strategies during learning and retrieval is related to content expertise. Students also make judgments of their own learning and of problem…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Expertise, Novices
Morphew, Jason W.; Mestre, Jose P.; Ross, Brian H.; Strand, Natalie E. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
It is known that experts identify or perceive meaningful patterns in visual stimuli related to their domain of expertise. This study explores the speed with which experts and novices detect changes in physics diagrams. Since change detection depends on where individuals direct their attention, differences in the speed with which experts and…
Descriptors: Expertise, Novices, Physics, Visual Aids
Stevens, Cacey S.; Marder, Michael; Nagel, Sidney R. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
We examine Illinois educational data from standardized exams and analyze primary factors affecting the achievement of public school students. We focus on the simplest possible models: representation of data through visualizations and regressions on single variables. Exam scores are shown to depend on school type, location, and poverty…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Academic Achievement, Standardized Tests, Public Schools
Gladding, Gary; Gutmann, Brianne; Schroeder, Noah; Stelzer, Timothy – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
This paper is part of a series of studies to improve the efficacy of online physics homework activities by integrating narrated animated solutions with mastery inspired exercises. In a clinical study using first- and second-year university students, the mastery group attempted question sets in four levels, with animated solutions between each…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Homework, Educational Technology
Schroeder, Noah; Gladding, Gary; Gutmann, Brianne; Stelzer, Timothy – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
Narrated animated solution videos were implemented in a clinical study that compared a mastery setting that employed repeated cycles of testing with instructional support to a group that had a single opportunity to experience the materials. The mastery setting students attempted sequential questions sets on a topic, with animated solutions between…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Animation, Narration, Teaching Methods
Fakcharoenphol, Witat; Stelzer, Timothy – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
In this clinical study on helping students prepare for an exam, we compared three different treatments. All students were asked to take a practice exam. One group was then given worked-out solutions for that exam, another group was given the solutions and targeted exercises to do as homework based on the result of their practice exam, and the…
Descriptors: Physics, Test Preparation, Experiments, Comparative Testing
Docktor, Jennifer L.; Mestre, Jose P.; Ross, Brian H. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
Research on physics problem categorization has established that proficient problem solvers are able to group together physics problems that would be solved by similar principles and use conceptual approaches when solving problems, whereas weak solvers rely more heavily upon surface features (objects, contexts, and quantities provided) to identify…
Descriptors: Novices, Classification, Criteria, Physics
Fakcharoenphol, Witat; Potter, Eric; Stelzer, Timothy – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2011
We developed a web-based tool to provide students with access to old exam problems and solutions. By controlling the order in which students saw the problems, as well as their access to solutions, we obtained data about student learning by studying old exam problems. Our data suggest that in general students learn from doing old exam problems, and…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Physics, Problem Sets, Drills (Practice)
Chen, Zhongzhou; Stelzer, Timothy; Gladding, Gary – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2010
It is known that introductory physics students rarely, if ever, read the textbook prior to coming to lecture. In this study, we report results from a curriculum intervention in a large enrollment introductory physics class that addresses this problem. In particular, we introduced web-based multimedia learning modules (MLMs) as a "prelecture…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses, Learning Modules
Scott, Michael; Stelzer, Tim; Gladding, Gary – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2006
The reliability and validity of professionally written multiple-choice exams have been extensively studied for exams such as the SAT, graduate record examination, and the force concept inventory. Much of the success of these multiple-choice exams is attributed to the careful construction of each question, as well as each response. In this study,…
Descriptors: Validity, Physics, Scores, Multiple Choice Tests