Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2016 Annual Spring Meeting of the APS Ohio-Region Section
Volume 61, Number 5
Friday–Saturday, April 8–9, 2016; Dayton, Ohio
Session D5: Contributed Session V: AAPT-Physics Education |
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Chair: Gordon Aubrecht, Ohio State University at Marion Room: SC107 |
Saturday, April 9, 2016 8:30AM - 8:42AM |
D5.00001: Measuring school students' reasoning abilities Gordon Aubrecht, Jennifer Esswein, Jessica Creamer, Bill Schmitt Middle school teachers in our program give students pre- and post-common formative assessments (CFAs) and analyze them. We recruited teachers in the same district's middle school as controls. We created a rubric to assess student communication, correctness, use of evidence, and reasoning on the CFAs. We present the results of an analysis of differences between students' CFAs of treatment and control teachers. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, April 9, 2016 8:42AM - 8:54AM |
D5.00002: Elucidating Ray Diagrams Lenore Horner Students often struggle to understand what ray diagrams are telling them. Difficulties include connecting the special rays in the diagram to the light that actually reaches the eye and thinking that if half the mirror or lens is blocked then half the image will disappear. I will present an interactive ray diagram designed to address these difficulties. [Preview Abstract] |
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