Publications (14)
Coordination of Mathematics and Physical Resources by Physics Graduate Students
Ayush Gupta, Edward F. Redish, David Hammer
We investigate the dynamics of how graduate students coordinate their mathematics and physics knowledge within the context of solving a homework problem for a plasma physics survey…
Lessons from pendulums: A design comparison of three lab activities
Ian Descamps, Roger Tobin, Paul Wagoner +3
We present three versions of a pendulum lab activity to explore how theoretical commitments, motivations, and aspirations reflect in curriculum design. In earlier work, Boudreaux &…
The Case for Dynamic Models of Learners' Ontologies in Physics
Ayush Gupta, David Hammer, Edward F. Redish
In a series of well-known papers, Chi and Slotta (Chi, 1992; Chi & Slotta, 1993; Chi, Slotta & de Leeuw, 1994; Slotta, Chi & Joram, 1995; Chi, 2005; Slotta & Chi, 2006) have conten…
Combining physics education and machine learning research to measure evidence of students' mechanistic sensemaking
Kaitlin Gili, Kyle Heuton, Astha Shah +2
Advances in machine learning (ML) offer new possibilities for science education research. We report on early progress in the design of an ML-based tool to analyze students' mechani…
Dynamics of Productive Confirmation Framing in an Introductory Lab
Ian Descamps, Sophia Jeon, N. G. Holmes +2
In introductory physics laboratory instruction, students often expect to confirm or demonstrate textbook physics concepts (Wilcox & Lewandowski, 2017; Hu & Zwickl, 2017; Hu & Zwick…
Student Behavior and Epistemological Framing: Examples from Collaborative Active-Learning Activities in Physics
Rachel E. Scherr, David Hammer
Questions of participant understanding of the nature of an activity have been addressed in anthropology and sociolinguistics with the concepts of frames and framing. For example, a…