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Research in many disciplines has used eye-tracking technology to investigate the differences in the visual attention of experts and novices. For example, it has been shown that…
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In a series of well-known papers, Chi and Slotta have contended that a reason for students' difficulties in learning physics is that they think about concepts as things rather than…
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By analysis of student use of mathematics in responses to conceptual physics questions, as well as analogous math questions stripped of physical meaning, we have previously found…
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This paper introduces a suite of computer simulations from the Physics Education Technology (PhET) project, identifies features of these educational tools, and demonstrates their…