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| Abstract Title: | Epistemic Games and Activity Theory: A Multi-Layered Task Analysis |
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| Abstract: | The epistemic games framework has been successfully employed in physics education research as a descriptive framework for episodes of physics problem solving. This framework has been employed at a variety of grain sizes, ranging from small, sub-discipline specific games to large, non-discipline-specific games. We elaborate this framework by incorporating elements of activity theory to further explore the role of epistemic game grain size. Rather than view grain size as a limitation or constraint of our analysis, we exploit it and use layers of epistemic games with different grain sizes to examine the reasoning that occurs while a group of middle division physics students plot a 2D vector field. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Michael Vignal Oregon State University Department of Physics 301 Weniger Hall Corvallis, OR 97331-6507 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Dr. Elizabeth Gire, Oregon State University |
