Undergraduate student construction and interpretation of graphs in physics lab activities
| Autor: | T. J. Godfrey, Craig C. Wiegert, Nicholas T. Mayhew, Ryan S. Nixon |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Semi-structured interview
LC8-6691 Computer science Educational quality Physics QC1-999 05 social sciences 050401 social sciences methods 050301 education General Physics and Astronomy Data interpretation ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS Special aspects of education Graph Education 0504 sociology Undergraduate student Mathematics education ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Statistical analysis 0503 education Cognitive style |
| Zdroj: | Physical Review Physics Education Research, Vol 12, Iss 1, p 010104 (2016) |
| ISSN: | 2469-9896 |
| Popis: | Lab activities are an important element of an undergraduate physics course. In these lab activities, students construct and interpret graphs in order to connect the procedures of the lab with an understanding of the related physics concepts. This study investigated undergraduate students’ construction and interpretation of graphs with best-fit lines in the context of two physics lab activities. Students’ graphs were evaluated for overall graph quality and for the quality of the best-fit line. The strategies students used and their understanding of the meaning of the graph were accessed through interviews. The results suggest that undergraduate introductory physics students can successfully construct graphs with best-fit lines while not connecting the meaning of the graph to the underlying physics concepts. Furthermore, results indicated that the most challenging aspect of constructing a graph is setting up the scale, and that graphing is situated in specific contexts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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