Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session E01: Poster Session I (5:45pm-7:45pm)
5:45 PM,
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Sheraton
Room: Plaza Foyer
Abstract: E01.00062 : Mapping the problem-solving process
Presenter:
Calvin Stubbins
(Franklin & Marshall College)
Author:
Calvin Stubbins
(Franklin & Marshall College)
We present a pedagogy based on link-node maps, which are a form of visual representation where nodes denote concepts and links represent connections between concepts. Examples of link-node maps, which have been heavily used in recent years to increase learning and retention, are concept maps and knowledge maps. The use of maps has been shown to be a robust way of increasing knowledge retention in a variety of disciplines. The work in this study focuses on a link-node map that organizes the solution to problems by representing the connections between different subproblems, thereby promoting thinking about relationships between different parts of a problem and making it easy to identify missing parts of a solution. We implemented this pedagogy in a junior-level mathematical physics course. Results suggest that quizzes based on this pedagogy are a better indicator of a student’s problem-solving ability than free-response questions.
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