A comparison of the impact of 3 forms of "hands-on" activities for learners with different scientific reasoning abilities
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Susan M. Fischer, Elise Agra, and Sian L. Beilock
We have developed a set of activities designed to aid student understanding of torque and center of gravity. The activities exist in three forms, each appropriate for a group member engaged in a "hands-on" classroom experience: embodied, involving balancing objects on one's hands, traditional hands-on, involving a meter stick balanced on a fulcrum, and observation of an experimenter performing the embodied activity. Our study is outside of the classroom and includes two populations of learners with significantly different abilities at pre-test. We find that the different types of training impact the two populations differently. In particular, participants with lower overall pre-test accuracies who observe the embodied activity show poorer gains on torque questions requiring proportional reasoning than participants with hands-on or embodied training, while observer participants with higher overall pre-test accuracies achieve high gains on even the more challenging transfer problems.
Physics Education Research Conference 2017
Part of the PER Conference series Cincinnati, OH: July 26-27, 2017 Pages 132-135
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=14587">Fischer, S, E. Agra, and S. Beilock. "A comparison of the impact of 3 forms of "hands-on" activities for learners with different scientific reasoning abilities." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2017, Cincinnati, OH, July 26-27, 2017.</a>
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Fischer, S., Agra, E., & Beilock, S. (2017, July 26-27). A comparison of the impact of 3 forms of "hands-on" activities for learners with different scientific reasoning abilities. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2017, Cincinnati, OH. Retrieved October 3, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14587&DocID=4764
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Fischer, S, E. Agra, and S. Beilock. "A comparison of the impact of 3 forms of "hands-on" activities for learners with different scientific reasoning abilities." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2017, Cincinnati, OH, July 26-27, 2017. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14587&DocID=4764 (accessed 3 October 2024).
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Fischer, Susan, Elise Agra, and Sian Beilock. "A comparison of the impact of 3 forms of "hands-on" activities for learners with different scientific reasoning abilities." Physics Education Research Conference 2017. Cincinnati, OH: 2017. 132-135 of PER Conference. 3 Oct. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14587&DocID=4764>.
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