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Mohazzabi, Pirooz – Physics Teacher, 2018
In an article in this journal, it was shown that air resistance could never be a significant source of error in typical free-fall experiments in introductory physics laboratories. Since projectile motion is the two-dimensional version of the free-fall experiment and usually follows the former experiment in such laboratories, it seemed natural to…
Descriptors: Physics, Introductory Courses, Laboratory Experiments, Error Patterns
Walkup, John R.; Key, Roger A.; Duncan, Sean Patrick; Sheldon, Avery E.; Walkup, Michael A. – Physics Education, 2020
Error analysis consumes much of the focus in introductory physics labs. Catastrophic cancellation is a spike in error that occurs when subtracting two measurements of roughly equal magnitude. Often termed "loss of significance" or "subtractive cancellation," this effect can easily relegate experimental results to utter…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Laboratory Experiments, Teaching Methods
PaaBen, Benjamin; Bertsch, Andreas; Langer-Fischer, Katharina; Rüdian, Sylvio; Wang, Xia; Sinha, Rupali; Kuzilek, Jakub; Britsch, Stefan; Pinkwart, Niels – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2021
Many modern anatomy curricula teach histology using virtual microscopes, where students inspect tissue slices in a computer program (e.g. a web browser). However, the educational data mining (EDM) potential of these virtual microscopes remains under-utilized. In this paper, we use EDM techniques to investigate three research questions on a virtual…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Science Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Software
Coleman, Aaron B.; Lam, Diane P.; Soowal, Lara N. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2015
Gaining an understanding of how science works is central to an undergraduate education in biology and biochemistry. The reasoning required to design or interpret experiments that ask specific questions does not come naturally, and is an essential part of the science process skills that must be learned for an understanding of how scientists conduct…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Study, Biochemistry
Joseph, Ariana; Budden, Katherine; Cisek, Richard; Tokarz, Danielle – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
In a university third-year instrumental chemistry laboratory students build a laser based polarimeter for determining light scattering with commercially available optical components used in modern optics research laboratories. During this laboratory experiment, students learn that solutions containing molecules which scatter light also influence…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Error Patterns
Ogunsola-Bandele, Mercy F.; Lawan, Falilatu K. – 1996
The purpose of this study was to analyze the errors made by high school students in practical biology and the extent to which boys and girls differ in terms of the frequency of errors committed. The subjects included 317 students from the twelfth grade sampled from five different schools in Nigeria. A criterion level of 0.05 was set to test the…
Descriptors: Biology, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues
Runquist, Willard N. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Research supported by a grant from the National Research Council of Canada. (RS)
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Laboratory Experiments, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Lucas, Jeffrey W.; Graif, Corina; Lovaglia, Michael J. – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2006
Prosecutorial misconduct involves the intentional use of illegal or improper methods for attaining convictions against defendants in criminal trials. Previous research documented extensive errors in the prosecution of severe crimes. A theory formulated to explain this phenomenon proposes that in serious cases, increased pressure to convict…
Descriptors: Criminals, Justice, Criminal Law, Law Enforcement

Turner, Lawrence E., Jr. – American Journal of Physics, 1976
Explains an error analysis procedure using the computer which requires no previous student experience with the computer. (CP)
Descriptors: College Science, Computers, Educational Media, Error Patterns
Chrysikou, Evangelia G.; Weisberg, Robert W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
Two experiments examined possible negative transfer in nonexperts from the use of pictorial examples in a laboratory design problem-solving situation. In Experiment 1, 89 participants were instructed to "think aloud" and were assigned to 1 of 3 conditions: (a) control (standard instructions), (b) fixation (inclusion of a problematic…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Protocol Analysis, Participant Characteristics, Design