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Do perceptually salient elements in physics problems influence students' eye movements and answer choices?
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Adrian M. Madsen, Amy Rouinfar, Adam M. Larson, Lester C. Loschky, and N. Sanjay Rebello
Several reasons have been proposed to explain students' incorrect answers to conceptual physics problems. Heckler proposed with a perceptual basis: plausible and salient "eye catching" features in a problem capture students' attention. Once students attend to these perceptually salient features, less salient albeit thematically relevant features are not considered and students answer the problem incorrectly based on the salient features. To test this hypothesis we recorded eye movements of introductory physics students on 15 conceptual problems with diagrams. Each diagram contained areas consistent with documented novice-like answers and other areas consistent with the scientifically correct answer. We manipulated the luminance contrast of the diagrams to produce three versions of each diagram, which differed by the area with the highest level of perceptual salience. We found no effect of the salience on the correctness of students' answers. We also discuss how the salience manipulations influence eye movements.
Physics Education Research Conference 2012
Part of the PER Conference series Philadelphia, PA: August 1-2, 2012 Volume 1513, Pages 274-277
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=12832">Madsen, A, A. Rouinfar, A. Larson, L. Loschky, and N. Rebello. "Do perceptually salient elements in physics problems influence students' eye movements and answer choices?." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, August 1-2, 2012.</a>
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A. Madsen, A. Rouinfar, A. Larson, L. Loschky, and N. Rebello, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, 2012, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12832&DocID=3365).
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A. Madsen, A. Rouinfar, A. Larson, L. Loschky, and N. Rebello, Do perceptually salient elements in physics problems influence students' eye movements and answer choices?, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, 2012, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12832&DocID=3365>.
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Madsen, A., Rouinfar, A., Larson, A., Loschky, L., & Rebello, N. (2012, August 1-2). Do perceptually salient elements in physics problems influence students' eye movements and answer choices?. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12832&DocID=3365
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Madsen, A, A. Rouinfar, A. Larson, L. Loschky, and N. Rebello. "Do perceptually salient elements in physics problems influence students' eye movements and answer choices?." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, August 1-2, 2012. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12832&DocID=3365 (accessed 25 April 2024).
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Madsen, Adrian, Amy Rouinfar, Adam Larson, Lester Loschky, and N. Sanjay Rebello. "Do perceptually salient elements in physics problems influence students' eye movements and answer choices?." Physics Education Research Conference 2012. Philadelphia, PA: 2012. 274-277 Vol. 1513 of PER Conference. 25 Apr. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12832&DocID=3365>.
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Title = {Do perceptually salient elements in physics problems influence students' eye movements and answer choices?},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2012},
Pages = {274-277},
Address = {Philadelphia, PA},
Series = {PER Conference},
Volume = {1513},
Month = {August 1-2},
Year = {2012}
}
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