Student expectations in a group learning activity on harmonic motion

Kaczynski, Adam; Wittmann, Michael C.

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Student expectations in a group learning activity on harmonic motion

written by Adam Kaczynski and Michael C. Wittmann

Students in a sophomore-level mechanics course participated in a new group learning activity that was intended to support model-building and finding coherence between multiple representations in the context of an underdamped harmonic system. Not all of the student groups framed the activity in the same way, and many attempted tasks that existed outside of the prompts of the activity. For one group, this meant that instead of providing a rich verbal description, they framed the activity
as finding a mathematical expression.

Physics Education Research Conference 2012
Part of the PER Conference series
Philadelphia, PA: August 1-2, 2012
Volume 1513, Pages 210-213

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Education Foundations - Problem Solving = Heuristics = Processes - Student Characteristics = Affect Education Practices - Active Learning = Cooperative Learning Oscillations & Waves - Oscillations = Damped Oscillators = Simple Harmonic Motion	- Upper Undergraduate - Lower Undergraduate	- Reference Material = Research study

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DOI:: 10.1063/1.4789689
PACSs:: 01.40.-d; 01.30.Cc
Keywords:: PERC 2012, damped harmonic motion, expectations, framing
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