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Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research
Development of the Concise Data Processing Assessment 
  
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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…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11954&DocID=2757
Journal of Research in Science Teaching
How Do College Students Solve Proportion Problems? 
  
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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…
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1023&context=...
Finding Evidence of Transfer with Invention Activities: Teaching the Concept of Weighted Average 
  
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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…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13123&DocID=3672
Doing Science or Doing a Lab? Engaging Students with Scientific Reasoning during Physics Lab Experiments 
  
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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,…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13164&DocID=3711
Development of a General Undergraduate Estimation Skills Survey (GUESS) 
  
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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…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13174&DocID=3721
Implementation of Scientific Community Laboratories and Their Effect on Student Conceptual Learning, Attitudes, and Understanding of Uncertainty 
  
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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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Structured quantitative inquiry labs : developing critical thinking in the introductory physics laboratory 
  
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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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Introductory Physics Students' Treatment of Measurement Uncertainty 
  
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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…
https://users.physics.unc.edu/~deardorf/uncertainty/dissertation.pdf
Assessing modeling in the lab: Uncertainty and measurement 
  
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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…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13803&DocID=4223
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Point and Set Reasoning in Practical Science Measurement by Entering University Freshmen 
  
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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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