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Jing Li and Chandralekha Singh
We discuss an investigation of student difficulties with symmetry and Gauss's law and how the research on students' difficulties was used as a guide to develop a tutorial related to these topics to help students in the calculus-based introductory physics courses learn these concepts. During the development of the tutorial, we interviewed students individually at various stages of development and administered written tests in the free-response and multiple-choice formats on these concepts to learn about common student difficulties. We also obtained feedback from physics instructors who teach introductory physics courses regularly in which these concepts were covered. The students in several 'equivalent' sections worked on the tutorial after traditional lecture-based instruction. We discuss the performance of students on the written pre-test (administered after lecture-based instruction in relevant concepts) and post-test given after students worked on the tutorial. We find that on the pre-test, all sections of the course performed comparably regardless of the instructor. Also, on average, student performance on the post-test after working on the tutorial is significantly better than on the pre-test after lecture-based instruction. We also compare the post-test performance of introductory students in sections of the course in which the tutorial was used versus not used and find that sections in which students engaged with the tutorial outperformed those in which students did not engage with it.
European Journal of Physics: Volume 39, Issue 1, Pages 015702
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Li, J., & Singh, C. (2017, December 7). Investigating and improving student understanding of symmetry and Gauss's law. Eur. J. Phys., 39(1), 015702. Retrieved May 18, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/aa8d55
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Li, Jing, and Chandralekha Singh. "Investigating and improving student understanding of symmetry and Gauss's law." Eur. J. Phys. 39, no. 1, (December 7, 2017): 015702, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/aa8d55 (accessed 18 May 2024).
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Li, Jing, and Chandralekha Singh. "Investigating and improving student understanding of symmetry and Gauss's law." Eur. J. Phys. 39.1 (2017): 015702. 18 May 2024 <https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/aa8d55>.
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