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| Abstract Title: | Student resources for reasoning probabilistically about heat and temperature |
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| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Abstract: | Existing research on student ideas about thermal physics primarily focuses on difficulties and misconceptions. In this poster, we identify a number of conceptual and epistemological resources that students use to answer questions about heat and temperature as they reason about the possibility of a series of scenarios, some of which are unlikely and others of which are very likely. The resources we identified are dependent on context, including whether the scenarios involve macroscopic or microscopic interactions. We speculate about how instructors might build on these ideas during instruction that aims to help students understand how deterministic phenomena at the macro scale emerge from probabilistic phenomena at the micro scale. |
| Footnote: | Supported in part by NSF Grants 1914572 & 1914603 |
| Session Time: | Poster Session B |
| Poster Number: | B-82 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Paula Heron University of Washington Seattle, WA 98122 Phone: 2064193049 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Al K Snow (they, them), University of Washington Lauren C. Bauman, University of Washington Brynna Hansen, Seattle Pacific University Amy D. Robertson, Seattle Pacific University |
