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written by John Stewart and Shawn Ballard
This study examined the written work of students in the introductory calculus-based electricity and magnetism course at the University of Arkansas. The students' solutions to hourly exams were divided into a small set of countable features organized into three major categories, mathematics, language, and graphics. Each category was further divided into subfeatures. The total number of features alone explained more than 30% of the variance in exam scores and from 9% to 15% of the variance in conceptual posttest scores. If all features and subfeatures are used, between 44% and 49% of the variance in exam scores is explained and between 22% and 28% of the variance in conceptual posttest scores. The use of language is consistently positively correlated with both exam performance and conceptual understanding.
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- Communication
= Language
- Student Characteristics
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American Physical Society
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.6.020120
NSF Number:
0108787
PACSs:
01.40.Di
01.40.Fk
PTEC Grant:
PHY-0108787
Keywords:
Conceptual Understanding, Written Communication
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Metadata instance created February 27, 2011 by Lyle Barbato
Record Updated:
May 21, 2012 by Vince Kuo
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October 27, 2010
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J. Stewart and S. Ballard, , Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 6 (2), 020120 (2010), WWW Document, (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.6.020120).
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J. Stewart and S. Ballard, Effect of written presentation on performance in introductory physics, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 6 (2), 020120 (2010), <https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.6.020120>.
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Stewart, J., & Ballard, S. (2010, October 27). Effect of written presentation on performance in introductory physics. Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 6(2), 020120. Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.6.020120
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Stewart, John, and Shawn Ballard. "Effect of written presentation on performance in introductory physics." Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 6, no. 2, (October 27, 2010): 020120, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.6.020120 (accessed 28 March 2024).
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Stewart, John, and Shawn Ballard. "Effect of written presentation on performance in introductory physics." Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 6.2 (2010): 020120. 28 Mar. 2024 <https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.6.020120>.
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