Learning about the Energy of a Hurricane System through an Estimation Epistemic Game

Autor:	Modir, Bahar, Irving, Paul W., Wolf, Steven F., Sayre, Eleanor C.
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Physics - Physics Education
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	As part of a study into students' problem solving behaviors, we asked upper-division physics students to solve estimation problems in clinical interviews. We use the Resources Framework and epistemic games to describe students' problem solving moves. We present a new epistemic game, the "estimation epistemic game". In the estimation epistemic game, students break the larger problem into a series of smaller, tractable problems. Within each sub-problem, they try to remember a method for solving the problem, and use estimation and reasoning abilities to justify their answers. We demonstrate how a single case study student plays the game to estimate the total energy in a hurricane. Finally, we discuss the implications of epistemic game analysis for other estimation problems. Comment: 4 pages. Submitted to Physics Education Research Conference 2014
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3243 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv