TY - CONF
AU - Michael Fox
AU - Benjamin Pollard
AU - Laura Ríos
AU - Heather Lewandowski
AB - A choose-your-own-adventure online assessment has been developed to measure the process of modeling undertaken by students when asked to measure the Earth's gravitational constant, g, using a simple pendulum. This activity forms part of the Modeling Assessment for Physics Laboratory Experiments (MAPLE), which is being developed to assess upper-division students' proficiency in modeling. The role of the pendulum activity is to serve as a pre-test assessment with apparatus that students are likely to be familiar. Using an initial sample of student data from a development phase of the assessment, we show that the pendulum activity is able to discriminate between a range of student processes that are relevant to understanding student engagement with modeling as a scientific tool.
BT - 2020 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings
DA - 2020-08
DO - 10.1119/perc.2020.pr.fox
N2 - A choose-your-own-adventure online assessment has been developed to measure the process of modeling undertaken by students when asked to measure the Earth's gravitational constant, g, using a simple pendulum. This activity forms part of the Modeling Assessment for Physics Laboratory Experiments (MAPLE), which is being developed to assess upper-division students' proficiency in modeling. The role of the pendulum activity is to serve as a pre-test assessment with apparatus that students are likely to be familiar. Using an initial sample of student data from a development phase of the assessment, we show that the pendulum activity is able to discriminate between a range of student processes that are relevant to understanding student engagement with modeling as a scientific tool.
PB - American Association of Physics Teachers
PY - 2020
SP - 155
EP - 160
T2 - 2020 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings
TI - Capturing modeling pathways using the Modeling Assessment for Physics Laboratory Experiments
UR - https://www.compadre.org/per/items/detail.cfm?ID=15475
ER -