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Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Student Textbook Summary Writing
written by Dedra Demaree, Saalih Allie, Michael Low, and Julian Taylor
The majority of "special access" students at the University of Cape Town are second language English speakers for whom reading the physics textbook is daunting. As a strategy to encourage meaningful engagement with the text, students wrote textbook summaries due the day material was covered in class.  The summaries were returned, and they could bring them or re-write them for use during their examinations. A framework was developed to analyze the summaries based on Waywood, defining three cognitive levels seen in mathematics journaling: recounting, summarizing, and dialoging.  This framework was refined, expanded, and tested.  Interviews with students were conducted for their views on summary writing and survey questions were included on their final exams. The study was carried out in the 2007 spring semester of the "Foundation Physics Course," a component of the special access program.
Physics Education Research Conference 2008
Part of the PER Conference series
Edmonton, Canada: July 23-24, 2008
Volume 1064, Pages 107-110
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https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021228
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© 2008 American Institute of Physics
A hard copy of the PERC 2008 proceedings is available for purchase from the AIP.
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10.1063/1.3021228
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01.40.Fk
01.40.G-
01.40.gb
01.50.F-
Keywords:
PERC 2008, Physics Education Research, Textbook Engagement, Writing to Learn, educational aids, educational courses, educational technology, laboratory techniques, research and development management, student experiments
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D. Demaree, S. Allie, M. Low, and J. Taylor, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2008, Edmonton, Canada, 2008, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8127&DocID=810).
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D. Demaree, S. Allie, M. Low, and J. Taylor, Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Student Textbook Summary Writing, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2008, Edmonton, Canada, 2008, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8127&DocID=810>.
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Demaree, D., Allie, S., Low, M., & Taylor, J. (2008, July 23-24). Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Student Textbook Summary Writing. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2008, Edmonton, Canada. Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8127&DocID=810
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Demaree, D, S. Allie, M. Low, and J. Taylor. "Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Student Textbook Summary Writing." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2008, Edmonton, Canada, July 23-24, 2008. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8127&DocID=810 (accessed 28 March 2024).
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Demaree, Dedra, Saalih Allie, Michael Low, and Julian Taylor. "Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Student Textbook Summary Writing." Physics Education Research Conference 2008. Edmonton, Canada: 2008. 107-110 Vol. 1064 of PER Conference. 28 Mar. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8127&DocID=810>.
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