Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 1 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 4 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 8 |
Descriptor
Error Patterns | 12 |
Teaching Methods | 12 |
Science Instruction | 8 |
Science Experiments | 6 |
Undergraduate Students | 4 |
Measurement | 3 |
Physics | 3 |
Accuracy | 2 |
Cognitive Processes | 2 |
Educational Experiments | 2 |
Error Correction | 2 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Baker, Ryan S. J. d. | 1 |
Belmar, F. | 1 |
Budden, Katherine | 1 |
Candelas, P. | 1 |
Cavalier, Robert | 1 |
Cisek, Richard | 1 |
Duncan, Sean Patrick | 1 |
Girault, Isabelle | 1 |
Gobert, Janice | 1 |
Haslbeck, Heidi | 1 |
Heinicke, Susanne | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 9 |
Reports - Descriptive | 4 |
Reports - Evaluative | 3 |
Reports - Research | 3 |
Education Level
Audience
Practitioners | 1 |
Researchers | 1 |
Teachers | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
Patterns of Adaptive Learning… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Oliveira, Vitor – Physics Education, 2022
We discuss the limits of the equation of the period of a simple pendulum, T[subscript s] = 2[pi][square root]l/g, frequently used in high-school and university classrooms to measure the acceleration of gravity. We evaluate the relative error in determining the acceleration of gravity with this simple equation instead of a more realistic one,…
Descriptors: Physics, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Accuracy
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
von Kotzebue, Lena; Müller, Laura; Haslbeck, Heidi; Neuhaus, Birgit J.; Lankes, Eva-Maria – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2020
Cognitive activation is one of the central quality characteristics of teaching. Studies which analyzed cognitive activation in science instruction and its influence on the achievement and the interest of students, took most of the times place in higher grades. Since scientific thinking can be taught at a very early stage and, in particular,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Schools, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
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
Girault, Isabelle; d'Ham, Cédric – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2014
When solving a scientific problem through experimentation, students may have the responsibility to design the experiment. When students work in a conventional condition, with paper and pencil, the designed procedures stay at a very general level. There is a need for additional scaffolds to help the students perform this complex task. We propose a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Problem Solving, Science Experiments, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Heinicke, Susanne – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2014
Every measurement in science, every experimental decision, result and information drawn from it has to cope with something that has long been named by the term "error". In fact, errors describe our limitations when it comes to experimental science and science looks back on a long tradition to cope with them. The widely known way to cope…
Descriptors: Coping, Teaching Methods, Motivation Techniques, Science Education History
Hershkovitz, Arnon; Baker, Ryan S. J. d.; Gobert, Janice; Wixon, Michael; Sao Pedro, Michael – Grantee Submission, 2013
In recent years, an increasing number of analyses in Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining (EDM) have adopted a "Discovery with Models" approach, where an existing model is used as a key component in a new EDM/analytics analysis. This article presents a theoretical discussion on the emergence of discovery with models, its…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Models, Learning Processes, Case Studies
Page, A.; Moreno, R.; Candelas, P.; Belmar, F. – European Journal of Physics, 2008
In this paper, we show the potential of webcams as precision measuring instruments in a physics laboratory. Various sources of error appearing in 2D coordinate measurements using low-cost commercial webcams are discussed, quantifying their impact on accuracy and precision, and simple procedures to control these sources of error are presented.…
Descriptors: Laboratory Equipment, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Physics
Lorenzet, Steven J.; Salas, Eduardo; Tannenbaum, Scott I. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2005
We conducted an experiment using training in a software package for presentations. Ninety undergraduate students with no previous experience received either training that guided them to commit common errors or alternatively training that sought to prevent errors from occurring. From previous research and relevant theory, a typology for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Self Efficacy, Computer Software, Experiments
Slack, Charles W. – 1964
The results of a number of experiments with the memorizing of several different subject-matters are presented in such a way that the relationship between number of opportunities for error (word elements faded) and number of errors actually made can be observed for individuals and groups. The particular selection of word elements to be taught by…
Descriptors: Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Error Patterns, Experiments

Cavalier, Robert; Wesp, Richard – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Maintains that having students estimate the size and width of a class waste paper can (placed on a desk) is a simple and effective way of illustrating perceptual distortion. Tests show that people will consistently overestimate the height of the can, allowing for a useful discussion on sensory distortion. (MJP)
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Educational), Educational Experiments, Error Patterns, Higher Education
Olsson, Margareta – 1972
This experiment continues the GUME experiments investigating methods for teaching English to Swedish school pupils. The aims of this particular study are twofold: (1) to analyze and classify the errors made by Swedish pupils in an oral English test in an effort to establish error patterns; and (2) to describe how the twelve most frequent errors in…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language)