Using Reflection with Peers to Help Students Learn Effective Problem Solving Strategies
We describe a study in which introductory physics students engage in reflection with peers about problem solving. The recitations for an introductory physics course with 200 students were broken into the "Peer Reflection" (PR) group and the traditional group. Each week in recitation, students in the PR group reflected in small teams on selected problems from the homework. The graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants (TAs) in the PR group recitations provided guidance and coaching to help students learn effective problem solving heuristics. In the recitations for the traditional group, students had the opportunity to ask the graduate TA questions about the homework before they took a weekly quiz. On the final exam with only multiple-choice questions, the PR group drew diagrams on more problems than the traditional group, even when there was no external reward for doing so. Since there was no partial credit for drawing the diagrams on the scratch books, students did not draw diagrams simply to get credit for the effort shown and must value the use of diagrams for solving problems if they drew them. We also find that, regardless of whether the students belonged to the traditional or PR groups, those who drew more diagrams for the multiple-choice questions outperformed those who did not draw them.
Physics Education Research Conference 2010
Part of the PER Conference Invited Paper series Portland, Oregon: July 21-22, 2010 Volume 1289, Pages 41-44
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=10379">Mason, Andrew, and Chandralekha Singh. "Using Reflection with Peers to Help Students Learn Effective Problem Solving Strategies." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, July 21-22, 2010.</a>
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Mason, A., & Singh, C. (2010, July 21-22). Using Reflection with Peers to Help Students Learn Effective Problem Solving Strategies. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon. Retrieved December 7, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10379&DocID=1852
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Mason, Andrew, and Chandralekha Singh. "Using Reflection with Peers to Help Students Learn Effective Problem Solving Strategies." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, July 21-22, 2010. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10379&DocID=1852 (accessed 7 December 2024).
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Mason, Andrew, and Chandralekha Singh. "Using Reflection with Peers to Help Students Learn Effective Problem Solving Strategies." Physics Education Research Conference 2010. Portland, Oregon: 2010. 41-44 Vol. 1289 of PER Conference Invited Paper. 7 Dec. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10379&DocID=1852>.
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Address = {Portland, Oregon},
Series = {PER Conference Invited Paper},
Volume = {1289},
Month = {July 21-22},
Year = {2010}
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