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Maria Al Dehaybes; Johan Deprez; Paul van Kampen; Mieke De Cock – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
This study investigated how students reason about the partial derivative and the directional derivative of a multivariable function at a given point, using different graphical representations for the function in the problem statement. Questions were formulated to be as isomorphic as possible in both mathematics and physics contexts and were given…
Descriptors: Physics, Calculus, Graphs, Abstract Reasoning
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Paul J. Emigh; Corinne A. Manogue – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Physics experts and students commonly use a variety of representations when working with partial derivatives, including symbols, graphs, and words. One especially powerful representation is the contour graph. In open-ended problem-solving interviews with nine upper-division physics students, we asked students to determine derivatives from contour…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Geometric Concepts
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Moskovitz, Cary – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2023
Visual elements such as graphs, tables, and diagrams are essential components of scientific writing. Although scientific writing textbooks and guides often contain information on how to design such visuals, little has been written on how to effectively discuss those visuals within the text. This article offers a novel heuristic for teaching…
Descriptors: Science Education, Textbooks, Textbook Preparation, Technical Writing
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Taweetham Limpanuparb; Junming Ho – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Approximate mathematical treatments are commonly taught in undergraduate chemistry, but the validity ranges of these approximations have rarely been properly defined. We present error contour plots of commonly used quadratic approximations for calculating equilibrium proton concentrations of monoprotic acids. Students and instructors can easily…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Education, Visual Aids, Undergraduate Students
Stephanie A. Berg – ProQuest LLC, 2024
All chemistry students must develop competency in analyzing and making sense of data. However, there are many difficulties that chemistry students may experience while analyzing data. Many students may not use relevant prior knowledge to aid in making sense of data, or they may not form conclusions using all the data provided. Additionally, prior…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Undergraduate Students
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Fajar Kurnianto; Anggi Datiatur Rahmat; Heru Kuswanto – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
Learning activities related to students' real-life experiences may create meaningful learning. Integrating traditional games into the physics classroom can reconstruct local knowledge into scientific knowledge. The use of technology can affect student learning achievement. One of the technologies currently attracting attention is Augmented reality…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Critical Thinking, Graphs
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A. Lynn Stephens – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
It is widely recognized that we need to prepare students to think with data. This study investigates student interactions with digital data graphs and seeks to identify what might prompt them to shift toward using their graphs as thinking tools in the authentic activity of doing science. Drawing from video screencast data of three small groups…
Descriptors: Graphs, Data, Interaction, Electronic Learning
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Pinochet, Jorge; Cortada, Walter Bussenius; Peña, Mauricio Sánchez – Physics Teacher, 2021
We present a simple experiment that allows us to demonstrate graphically that the intensity of sound waves is proportional to the square of their amplitude, a result that is theoretically analyzed in any introductory wave course but rarely demonstrated empirically. To achieve our goal, we use an audio signal generator that, when connected to a…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Acoustics, Introductory Courses, Science Education
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Paoletti, Teo; Lee, Hwa Young; Rahman, Zareen; Vishnubhotla, Madhavi; Basu, Debasmita – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
In this study, we examined graphical representations in several mathematics, science, and engineering textbooks and practitioner journals with the goal of identifying similarities and differences across these sources. To do this, we drew from the extant research on students interpreting graphs and reasoning covariationally to develop a framework…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Science Education, Engineering Education, Textbooks
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Sokolowski, Andrzej – Physics Education, 2019
This paper is a continuation of an earlier discussion in this journal about adhering to principles of mathematics while presenting function graphs in physics. As in the previous paper, the importance of the vertical line test was examined, this paper delves more in-depth, and it pinpoints a need for presenting graphs with a continuous rate of…
Descriptors: Graphs, Physics, Mathematics Education, Calculus
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Harris, Frank – School Science Review, 2020
The year 2020 saw the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic that not only had wide-reaching social and economic consequences but also put healthcare systems under stress. Strategies for coping with the virus depended heavily on the interpretation of data. This article uses information from a UK upper tier local authority to examine how closely the…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Data Interpretation, Prediction
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Weissman, M. B. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Sound educational policy recommendations require valid estimates of causal effects, but observational studies in physics education research sometimes have loosely specified causal hypotheses. The connections between the observational data and the explicit or implicit causal conclusions are sometimes misstated. The link between the causal…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Attribution Theory, Educational Policy
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Božic, Radoslav; Takaci, Ðurdica; Stankov, Gordana – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
The authors described the influence of the GeoGebra based environment on students' achievements in the field of functions with parameters, during collaborative learning. Functions with parameters are important because of their application in science. Students had to choose different values for parameters and to examine the properties of the…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Calculus
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dos Santos, Paulo José Sena; dos Santos, Toni Fernando Mendes – Physics Education, 2021
Many researches show that students have difficulties in understanding graphics in kinematics. Some authors argue that we can use different instructional strategies to reduce these difficulties. Based on these studies, we developed and applied a didactic sequence using educational robotics to teach graphic analysis in movements in a dimension with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Physics, Science Education, Graphs
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Ramos, David Brito; Ramos, Ilmara Monteverde Martins; Gasparini, Isabela; Teixeira de Oliveira, Elaine Harada – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2021
This work presents a new approach to the learning path model in e-learning systems. The model uses data from the database records from an e-learning system and uses graphs as representation. In this work, the authors show how the model can be used to represent visually the learning paths, behavior analysis, help to suggest group formation for…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Models, Graphs, Integrated Learning Systems
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