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SUMMARY:Measuring Physics Understanding on Time Scales from Milliseconds to Months
DESCRIPTION:
 Andrew Heckler from The Ohio State University 
 will lead a seminar on "Measuring physics 
 understanding on time scales from milliseconds 
 to months."\n
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 How and why does student 
 understanding of physics change with time? 
 When simple physics questions are posed to 
 students, not only does this result in interesting 
 patterns of answers, but answering patterns 
 also vary over a wide range of timescales. 
 Such patterns provide important insight into 
 the nature of student learning and understanding 
 as well as the effects of instruction. 
 In this talk, I will discuss introductory physics 
 student performance on two time scales. 
 First, how do student responses evolve over 
 the term of a physics course? By randomly sampling 
 different students throughout the term, 
 we have found clear patterns of rapid learning, 
 forgetting, and interference between related 
 topics. Furthermore, these changes have been 
 found to correspond only to relevant homework 
 assignments rather than relevant lectures 
 or midterms. Second, what can be learned from 
 measuring student response times? On the scale 
 of hundreds to thousands of milliseconds, 
 there are clear patterns of response times 
 that coincide with response choices. For example, 
 on simple physics multiple choice tasks, 
 students will often choose the response that 
 is most rapidly processed, even at the expense 
 of accuracy. These results suggest that performance 
 on these physics questions is strongly 
 influenced by automatic implicit cognitive 
 processes that are independent of explicit 
 physics knowledge.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: CREATE for STEM\n
 Contact email: ande1617@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://create4stem.msu.edu/event/seminar-429/3345\n
LOCATION:1400 BPS
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