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Improved Student Performance in Electricity and Magnetism Following Prior MAPS Instruction in Mechanics
written by Saif Rayyan, Andrew Pawl, Analia Barrantes, Raluca E. Teodorescu, and David E. Pritchard
We examine the performance of a group of students in Introductory Electricity and Magnetism following a ReView course in Introductory Mechanics focusing on problem solving employing the Modeling Applied to Problem Solving (MAPS) pedagogy[1]. The group consists of students who received a D in the fall Mechanics course (8.01) and were given the chance to attend the ReView course and take a final retest. Improvement to a passing grade was qualification for the Electricity and Magnetism course (8.02) in the spring. The ReView course was conducted twice - during January 2009 and January 2010. As a control, we took a group of students with similar z-scores in 8.01 in Fall 2007 that were not offered the ReView course. We show that the ReView students perform ~0.7 standard deviations better than the control group (p~0.002) and ~ 0.5 standard deviations better than what is expected based on their performance in 8.01(p ~0.001).
Physics Education Research Conference 2010
Part of the PER Conference series
Portland, Oregon: July 21-22, 2010
Volume 1289, Pages 273-276
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Classical Mechanics
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Education Practices
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= Problem Solving
Electricity & Magnetism
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- Lower Undergraduate
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DOI:
10.1063/1.3515221
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0757931
PACSs:
01.40.Fk
01.40.gb
Keywords:
course reform, introductory physics, longitudinal, modeling instruction, transfer, PERC 2010, physics education research
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S. Rayyan, A. Pawl, A. Barrantes, R. Teodorescu, and D. Pritchard, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, 2010, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10476&DocID=1931).
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S. Rayyan, A. Pawl, A. Barrantes, R. Teodorescu, and D. Pritchard, Improved Student Performance in Electricity and Magnetism Following Prior MAPS Instruction in Mechanics, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, 2010, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10476&DocID=1931>.
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Rayyan, S., Pawl, A., Barrantes, A., Teodorescu, R., & Pritchard, D. (2010, July 21-22). Improved Student Performance in Electricity and Magnetism Following Prior MAPS Instruction in Mechanics. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10476&DocID=1931
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Rayyan, S, A. Pawl, A. Barrantes, R. Teodorescu, and D. Pritchard. "Improved Student Performance in Electricity and Magnetism Following Prior MAPS Instruction in Mechanics." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, July 21-22, 2010. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10476&DocID=1931 (accessed 26 April 2024).
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Rayyan, Saif, Andrew Pawl, Analia Barrantes, Raluca Teodorescu, and David E. Pritchard. "Improved Student Performance in Electricity and Magnetism Following Prior MAPS Instruction in Mechanics." Physics Education Research Conference 2010. Portland, Oregon: 2010. 273-276 Vol. 1289 of PER Conference. 26 Apr. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10476&DocID=1931>.
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