6 papers
Students' Epistemological Beliefs and their Chatbot Preferences in AI-mediated Physics Learning
Amogh Sirnoorkar, Omkar Mamidpalliwar
Evolving technologies have traditionally influenced pedagogical practices and Generative AI is one such technology that promises to transform higher education. In this study, we in…
Examining Student and AI Generated Personalized Analogies in Introductory Physics
Amogh Sirnoorkar, Winter Allen, Syed Furqan Abbas Hashmi +1
Comparing abstract concepts (such as electric circuits) with familiar ideas (plumbing systems) through analogies is central to practice and communication of physics. Contemporary r…
Feedback That Clicks: Introductory Physics Students' Valued Features in AI Feedback Generated From Self-Crafted and Engineered Prompts
Amogh Sirnoorkar, N. Sanjay Rebello
Since the advent of GPT-3.5 in 2022, Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shown tremendous potential in STEM education, particularly in providing real-time, customized feedb…
Dual-Role Dynamics in Prompting: Elementary Pre-service Teachers' AI Prompting Strategies for Representational Choices
Razan Hamed, Amogh Sirnoorkar, N. Sanjay Rebello
Pre-service teachers play a unique dual role as they straddle between the roles of students and future teachers. This dual role requires them to adopt both the learner's and the in…
From Self-Crafted to Engineered Prompts: Student Evaluations of AI-Generated Feedback in Introductory Physics
Amogh Sirnoorkar, N. Sanjay Rebello
The abilities of Generative-Artificial Intelligence (AI) to produce real-time, sophisticated responses across diverse contexts has promised a huge potential in physics education, p…
Applying a STEM Ways of Thinking Framework for Student-generated Engineering Design-based Physics Problems
Ravishankar Chatta Subramaniam, Nikhil Borse, Winter Allen +4
This second paper in a multi-part series builds on the first, which introduced the Ways of Thinking for Engineering Design-based Physics (WoT4EDP) framework for STEM education in a…