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Making Sense of Measurements, Making Sense of the Textbook
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Saalih Allie, Dedra Demaree, Julian Taylor, Fred Lubben, and Andy Buffler
Students who enroll for the special access course in physics at the University of Cape Town generally do not speak English as first language and have experienced poor science teaching. As a consequence students experience a large range of difficulties in trying to learn physics. We discuss research carried out in two such areas (a) understanding of measurement and (b) engagement with the textbook. With regard to (a) an overview of the methodology, analysis framework and findings of previous work will be presented together with more recent preliminary findings regarding audience dependence when conveying measurement results. With regard to (b) the idea of writing chapter summaries was used to guide students through the book with the aim that the textbook would come to be valued an accessible resource. Findings from the analysis of the student summaries are presented.
Physics Education Research Conference 2008
Part of the PER Conference Invited Paper series Edmonton, Canada: July 23-24, 2008 Volume 1064, Pages 3-6
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=7928">Allie, S, D. Demaree, J. Taylor, F. Lubben, and A. Buffler. "Making Sense of Measurements, Making Sense of the Textbook." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2008, Edmonton, Canada, July 23-24, 2008.</a>
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S. Allie, D. Demaree, J. Taylor, F. Lubben, and A. Buffler, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2008, Edmonton, Canada, 2008, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7928&DocID=682).
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S. Allie, D. Demaree, J. Taylor, F. Lubben, and A. Buffler, Making Sense of Measurements, Making Sense of the Textbook, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2008, Edmonton, Canada, 2008, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7928&DocID=682>.
APA Format
Allie, S., Demaree, D., Taylor, J., Lubben, F., & Buffler, A. (2008, July 23-24). Making Sense of Measurements, Making Sense of the Textbook. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2008, Edmonton, Canada. Retrieved April 26, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7928&DocID=682
Chicago Format
Allie, S, D. Demaree, J. Taylor, F. Lubben, and A. Buffler. "Making Sense of Measurements, Making Sense of the Textbook." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2008, Edmonton, Canada, July 23-24, 2008. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7928&DocID=682 (accessed 26 April 2025).
MLA Format
Allie, Saalih, Dedra Demaree, Julian Taylor, Fred Lubben, and Andy Buffler. "Making Sense of Measurements, Making Sense of the Textbook." Physics Education Research Conference 2008. Edmonton, Canada: 2008. 3-6 Vol. 1064 of PER Conference Invited Paper. 26 Apr. 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7928&DocID=682>.
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@inproceedings{
Author = "Saalih Allie and Dedra Demaree and Julian Taylor and Fred Lubben and Andy Buffler",
Title = {Making Sense of Measurements, Making Sense of the Textbook},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2008},
Pages = {3-6},
Address = {Edmonton, Canada},
Series = {PER Conference Invited Paper},
Volume = {1064},
Month = {July 23-24},
Year = {2008}
}
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%0 Conference Proceedings %A Allie, Saalih %A Demaree, Dedra %A Taylor, Julian %A Lubben, Fred %A Buffler, Andy %D July 23-24 2008 %T Making Sense of Measurements, Making Sense of the Textbook %B Physics Education Research Conference 2008 %C Edmonton, Canada %V 1064 %P 3-6 %S PER Conference Invited Paper %8 July 23-24 %U https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7928&DocID=682 Disclaimer: ComPADRE offers citation styles as a guide only. We cannot offer interpretations about citations as this is an automated procedure. Please refer to the style manuals in the Citation Source Information area for clarifications.
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