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Digging in: Attending to students’ epistemic emotions while computationally modeling in physics
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Luke D. Conlin, Aditi Wagh, J. Elisabeth Mesiner, Aaron Dwyer, Bridget Knight, and Emi Pilla
When physics students experiment with computational models, they encounter new sources of uncertainty: is this surprising behavior of the model a feature or a bug? This added uncertainty comes with the risk of shutting down inquiry. Alternatively, it could be what inspires and facilitates sustained scientific investigation with the model. The outcome hinges on how students respond to epistemic emotions such as uncertainty and confusion. Do they avoid these emotions, or do they dig in? In this paper, we analyze video data of a pair of high school students working with a computational model of global warming. The analysis highlights the epistemic emotions that arise for them. We find this pair responds to surprise and uncertainty by "digging in" with spontaneous scientific experimentation, which in turn leads to conceptual learning, joy, and self-confidence. We discuss the importance of attending to how physics students respond to uncertainty while computationally modeling phenomena.
Physics Education Research Conference 2024
Part of the PER Conference series Boston, MA: July 10-11, 2024 Pages 102-107
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=16879">Conlin, L, A. Wagh, J. Mesiner, A. Dwyer, B. Knight, and E. Pilla. "Digging in: Attending to students’ epistemic emotions while computationally modeling in physics." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2024, Boston, MA, July 10-11, 2024.</a>
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L. Conlin, A. Wagh, J. Mesiner, A. Dwyer, B. Knight, and E. Pilla, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2024, Boston, MA, 2024, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16879&DocID=5946).
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L. Conlin, A. Wagh, J. Mesiner, A. Dwyer, B. Knight, and E. Pilla, Digging in: Attending to students’ epistemic emotions while computationally modeling in physics, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2024, Boston, MA, 2024, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16879&DocID=5946>.
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Conlin, L., Wagh, A., Mesiner, J., Dwyer, A., Knight, B., & Pilla, E. (2024, July 10-11). Digging in: Attending to students’ epistemic emotions while computationally modeling in physics. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2024, Boston, MA. Retrieved July 20, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16879&DocID=5946
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Conlin, L, A. Wagh, J. Mesiner, A. Dwyer, B. Knight, and E. Pilla. "Digging in: Attending to students’ epistemic emotions while computationally modeling in physics." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2024, Boston, MA, July 10-11, 2024. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16879&DocID=5946 (accessed 20 July 2025).
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Conlin, Luke, Aditi Wagh, Jennifer Elisabeth Mesiner, Aaron Dwyer, Bridget Knight, and Emi Pilla. "Digging in: Attending to students’ epistemic emotions while computationally modeling in physics." Physics Education Research Conference 2024. Boston, MA: 2024. 102-107 of PER Conference. 20 July 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16879&DocID=5946>.
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@inproceedings{
Author = "Luke Conlin and Aditi Wagh and Jennifer Elisabeth Mesiner and Aaron Dwyer and Bridget Knight and Emi Pilla",
Title = {Digging in: Attending to students’ epistemic emotions while computationally modeling in physics},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2024},
Pages = {102-107},
Address = {Boston, MA},
Series = {PER Conference},
Month = {July 10-11},
Year = {2024}
}
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