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Online test administration results in students selecting more responses to multiple-choice-multiple-response items
Alexis Olsho, Trevor Smith, Suzanne White Brahmia +3
Multiple-choice multiple-response (MCMR) items (i.e., multiple-choice questions for which more than one response may be selected) can be a valuable tool for assessment. Like tradit…
Cross-disciplinary learning: A framework for assessing application of concepts across STEM disciplines
Emily Borda, Todd Haskell, Andrew Boudreaux
We propose and define the construct, cross-disciplinary learning, which can guide learning and assessment in programs that feature sequential learning across multiple STEM discipli…
The Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy: A tool for assessing mathematical reasoning in introductory physics
Suzanne White Brahmia, Alexis Olsho, Trevor I. Smith +3
One desired outcome of introductory physics instruction is that students will develop facility with reasoning quantitatively about physical phenomena. Little research has been done…
Exploring student facility with "goes like'' reasoning in introductory physics
Charlotte Zimmerman, Alexis Olsho, Andrew Boudreaux +3
Covariational reasoning -- reasoning about how changes in one quantity relate to changes in another quantity -- has been examined extensively in mathematics education research. Lit…
When negative is not "less than zero": Electric charge as a signed quantity
Alexis Olsho, Suzanne White Brahmia, Andrew Boudreaux +1
Electromagnetism (E&M) is often challenging for students enrolled in introductory college-level physics courses. Compared to mechanics, the mathematics of E&M is more sophisticated…
Online administration of a reasoning inventory in development
Alexis Olsho, Suzanne White Brahmia, Trevor Smith +3
We are developing a new research based assessment (RBA) focused on quantitative reasoning -- rather than conceptual understanding -- in physics contexts. We rapidly moved administr…
Toward a valid instrument for measuring physics quantitative literacy
Trevor I. Smith, Philip Eaton, Suzanne White Brahmia +3
We have developed the Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy (PIQL) as a tool to measure students' quantitative literacy in the context of introductory physics topics. We prese…
Towards understanding and characterizing expert covariational reasoning in physics
Charlotte Zimmerman, Alexis Olsho, Michael Loverude +3
Relating two quantities to describe a physical system or process is at the heart of "doing physics" for novices and experts alike. In this paper, we explore the ways in which exper…
A Conceptual Blend Analysis of Physics Quantitative Literacy Reasoning Inventory Items
Suzanne White Brahmia, Alexis Olsho, Andrew Boudreaux +2
Mathematical reasoning flexibility across physics contexts is a desirable learning outcome of introductory physics, where the math world and physical world meet. Physics Quantitati…
Using psychometric tools as a window into students' quantitative reasoning in introductory physics
Trevor I. Smith, Philip Eaton, Suzanne White Brahmia +6
The Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy (PIQL), a reasoning inventory under development, aims to assess students' physics quantitative literacy at the introductory level. Th…
A framework for the natures of negativity in introductory physics
Suzanne White Brahmia, Alexis Olsho, Trevor I. Smith +1
Mathematical reasoning skills are a desired outcome of many introductory physics courses, particularly calculus-based physics courses. Positive and negative quantities are ubiquito…
Developing a reasoning inventory for measuring physics quantitative literacy
Trevor I. Smith, Suzanne W. Brahmia, Alexis Olsho +6
In an effort to improve the quality of citizen engagement in workplace, politics, and other domains in which quantitative reasoning plays an important role, Quantitative Literacy (…
Developing Mathematical Creativity with Physics Invention Tasks
Suzanne Brahmia, Andrew Boudreaux, Stephen E. Kanim
Modeling the creative mathematical sensemaking that characterizes expert thinking in physics is typically a struggle for new learners. To help students learn to reason this way, we…
Obstacles to Mathematization in Introductory Physics
S. Brahmia, A. Boudreaux, S. E. Kanim
University students taking introductory physics are generally successful executing mathematical procedures in context, but often struggle with the use of mathematical concepts for…
Student facility with ratio and proportion: Mapping the reasoning space in introductory physics
Andrew Boudreaux, Stephen Kanim, Suzanne Brahmia
Six specific modes of reasoning about ratio and proportion have been delineated as a means of operationalizing expert practice. These modes stem from consideration of how physicist…