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| Abstract Title: | Exploring Student Difficulties with Buoyancy |
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| Abstract: | Our research group is developing a standardized fluids assessment, covering buoyancy and pressure. Understanding buoyancy requires a battery of skills and knowledge, and we have designed questions to probe understanding of background concepts such as density, incompressibility, and volume of fluid displaced. In this talk we will describe some of the buoyancy-related assessment questions, the misconceptions they probe, and the preliminary results from the beta version of the assessment. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
DJ Wagner Grove City College 100 Campus Drive Grove City, PA 16127 Phone: 724-458-3789 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Elizabeth Carbone (Grove City College) and Ashley Lindow (Grove City College) |
