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Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research
  
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J. Day and D. Bonn, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 7 (1), 010114 (2011).
The Concise Data Processing Assessment (CDPA) was developed to probe student abilities related to the nature of measurement and uncertainty and to handling data. The diagnostic is a…
Journal of Research in Science Teaching
  
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M. Thornton and R. Fuller, J. Res. Sci. Teaching, 18 (4), 335-340 (1981).
Problems which could be solved using proportional reasoning were administered nationwide by college faculty to their own science classes during a three year period. The reasoning of…
  
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J. Day, N. Holmes, I. Roll, and D. Bonn, PERC 2013 Proceedings, 117-120.
Coming to grips with the nature of measurement and uncertainty is often a common but implicit learning goal for many undergraduate physics labs. As educators, our intent is to have…
  
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N. Holmes and D. Bonn, PERC 2013 Proceedings, 185-188.
Undergraduate teaching labs often include expectations for students to use various sensemaking and reasoning behaviours when conducting an experiment. These expectations, however,…
  
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A. Macdonald, S. Burke, and C. Heiner, PERC 2013 Proceedings, 237-240.
We describe the development of a ten-question diagnostic designed to characterize the estimation skills of undergraduate students in science and engineering. In order to establish a…
  
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Scientific Community Laboratories, developed by The University of Maryland, have shown initial promise as laboratories meant to emulate the practice of doing physics. These…
  
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Many undergraduate labs engage students in experimentation without developing critical thinking or scientific reasoning skills, especially about measurement and data. This thesis…
  
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The objective of this qualitative study is to examine and document how introductory physics students treat the uncertainty of measurements. In meeting this objective, the conceptions…
  
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N. Holmes and C. Wieman, 2015 Conference on Laboratory Instruction Beyond the First Year of College, 44-47 (2015).
Many introductory physics labs include goals related to learning about measurement uncertainty or error propagation. In this article, we present evidence from a new survey about…
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F. Lubben, B. Campbell, A. Buffler, and S. Allie, Sci. Educ., 85 (4), 311-327 (2001).
The procedural understanding of university students at the freshman level, prior to instruction, has been investigated in the context of experimental work in physics. A written…
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