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Challenge Of Engaging All Students Via Self-Paced Interactive Electronic Learning Tutorials For Introductory Physics, Seth Devore, Emily Marshman, Chandralekha Singh
Challenge Of Engaging All Students Via Self-Paced Interactive Electronic Learning Tutorials For Introductory Physics, Seth Devore, Emily Marshman, Chandralekha Singh
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As research-based, self-paced electronic learning tools become increasingly available, a critical issue educators encounter is implementing strategies to ensure that all students engage with them as intended. Here, we first discuss the effectiveness of electronic learning tutorials as self-paced learning tools in large enrollment brick and mortar introductory physics courses and then propose a framework for helping students engage effectively with the learning tools. The tutorials were developed via research in physics education and were found to be effective for a diverse group of introductory physics students in one-on-one implementation. Instructors encouraged the use of these tools in a self-paced …
Examining The Effects Of Testwiseness In Conceptual Physics Evaluations, Seth Devore, John Stewart, Gay Stewart
Examining The Effects Of Testwiseness In Conceptual Physics Evaluations, Seth Devore, John Stewart, Gay Stewart
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Testwiseness is defined as the set of cognitive strategies used by a student that is intended to improve his or her score on a test regardless of the test’s subject matter. Questions with elements that may be affected by testwiseness are common in physics assessments, even in those which have been extensively validated and widely used as evaluation tools in physics education research. The potential effect of several elements of testwiseness were analyzed for questions in the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) and Conceptual Survey on Electricity and Magnetism that contain distractors that are predicted to be influenced by testwiseness. This …