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Direct linkMaries, Alexandru; Brundage, Mary Jane; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
The Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM) is a multiple-choice survey that contains a variety of electricity and magnetism concepts from Coulomb's law to Faraday's law at the level of introductory physics used to help inform instructors of student mastery of those concepts. Prior studies suggest that many concepts on the survey are…
Descriptors: Physics, Energy, Graduate Students, Teaching Methods
Maries, Alexandru; Lin, Shih-Yin; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Prior research suggests that introductory physics students have difficulty with graphing and interpreting graphs. Here, we discuss an investigation of student difficulties in translating between mathematical and graphical representations for a problem in electrostatics and the effect of increasing levels of scaffolding on students'…
Descriptors: Physics, Introductory Courses, Science Instruction, Problem Solving
Mason, Andrew; Singh, Chandralekha – Physics Education, 2016
The ability to categorize problems based upon underlying principles, rather than contexts, is considered a hallmark of expertise in physics problem solving. With inspiration from a classic study by Chi, Feltovich, and Glaser, we compared the categorization of 25 introductory mechanics problems based upon similarity of solution by students in large…
Descriptors: Physics, Introductory Courses, Science Process Skills, Classification
Lin, Shih-Yin; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
In this study, we examine introductory physics students' ability to perform analogical reasoning between two isomorphic problems which employ the same underlying physics principles but have different surface features. 382 students from a calculus-based and an algebra-based introductory physics course were administered a quiz in the recitation…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Problem Solving, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Mason, Andrew; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2011
The ability to categorize problems based upon underlying principles, rather than surface features or contexts, is considered one of several proxy predictors of expertise in problem solving. With inspiration from the classic study by Chi, Feltovich, and Glaser, we assess the distribution of expertise among introductory physics students by asking…
Descriptors: Expertise, Graduate Students, Physics, Classification
Mason, Andrew; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2010
Students' attitudes and approaches to problem solving in physics can profoundly influence their motivation to learn and development of expertise. We developed and validated an Attitudes and Approaches to Problem Solving survey by expanding the Attitudes toward Problem Solving survey of Marx and Cummings and administered it to physics graduate…
Descriptors: Physics, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Problem Solving
