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Analyzing students’ reasoning about the inverse-square law through the lens of dual processing theories
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Daniel B. Marsh and Rabindra R. Bajracharya
We discuss an investigation exploring students' reasoning about the inverse-square law using the perspectives of dual processing. We find that students in both introductory mathematics and physics courses have difficulties with the law when it is presented in multiple representations. More than half of the students who provided incorrect responses to the written surveys inappropriately based their reasoning on various cues in the questions without engaging in genuine conceptual thinking. One common reasoning students provided was based on the inverse relationship rather than the inverse-square relationship between two variables. We suggest that the reason for this could be due to the students' choice of an intuitive and automatic processing (system 1) over a controlled and conscious processing (system 2) while responding to the questions.
Physics Education Research Conference 2019
Part of the PER Conference series Provo, UT: July 24-25, 2019 Pages 360-365
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=15301">Marsh, Daniel B., and Rabindra Bajracharya. "Analyzing students’ reasoning about the inverse-square law through the lens of dual processing theories." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2019, Provo, UT, July 24-25, 2019.</a>
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D. Marsh and R. Bajracharya, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2019, Provo, UT, 2019, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15301&DocID=5213).
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D. Marsh and R. Bajracharya, Analyzing students’ reasoning about the inverse-square law through the lens of dual processing theories, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2019, Provo, UT, 2019, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15301&DocID=5213>.
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Marsh, D., & Bajracharya, R. (2019, July 24-25). Analyzing students’ reasoning about the inverse-square law through the lens of dual processing theories. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2019, Provo, UT. Retrieved April 27, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15301&DocID=5213
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Marsh, Daniel B., and Rabindra Bajracharya. "Analyzing students’ reasoning about the inverse-square law through the lens of dual processing theories." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2019, Provo, UT, July 24-25, 2019. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15301&DocID=5213 (accessed 27 April 2024).
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Marsh, Daniel B., and Rabindra Bajracharya. "Analyzing students’ reasoning about the inverse-square law through the lens of dual processing theories." Physics Education Research Conference 2019. Provo, UT: 2019. 360-365 of PER Conference. 27 Apr. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15301&DocID=5213>.
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Author = "Daniel B. Marsh and Rabindra Bajracharya",
Title = {Analyzing students’ reasoning about the inverse-square law through the lens of dual processing theories},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2019},
Pages = {360-365},
Address = {Provo, UT},
Series = {PER Conference},
Month = {July 24-25},
Year = {2019}
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