Technology & Model-Based Conceptual Assessment:
Research in Students' Applications of Models in Physics & Mathematics

A Research Project
Investigating Physics & Mathematics Learning

 

Papers which have been published or accepted  for publication

The Effect Of Distracters On Student Performance On The Force Concept Inventory  American Journal of Physics 72, 116-125 (2004)

 

Students' Models of Newton's Second Law in Mechanics and Electromagnetism  European Journal of Physics 25, 81-89 (2004)

 

The Vocabulary of Introductory Physics and Its Implications for Learning Physics The Physics Teacher 41, 41-46 (2003)

 

Model Analysis of Fine Structures of Student Models: An Example with Newton's Third Law  American Journal of Physics  70, 766-778 (2002)

 

"Using PHP For Interactive Web Pages," Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications, Vol. 2 (June 2002).

 

Papers presented at national meetings

Eliciting and Representing Hybrid Mental Models (NARST 2005)

A Framework for Student Reasoning in an Interview (PERC 2004)

Implications of a Framework for Student Reasoning in an Interview (PERC 2004)

Students' Mental Models of Sound Propagation: Implications for a Theory of Conceptual Change (PERC 2003)

Students’ mental models of Newton’s second law: mechanics to electromagnetism  (NARST 2003)

A summary of students’ mental models and their applications in contexts pertaining to Newton’s II law (PERC 2002)

Immediate Informative Feedback Using a New Homework System (PERC 2002)

Identifying students' models of sound propagation (PERC 2002)

Context Map: A Method to Represent The Interactions Between Students’ Learning and Multiple Context Factors (PERC 2002)

Immediate Informative Feedback Using a New Homework System (PERC 2002)

Graduate and undergraduate students’ views on learning and teaching physics (PERC 2001) 

Presentations at national meetings (PDF versions of PowerPoint)

Mental Models of Energy: Mechanics Contexts (AAPT Winter 2003)

Ordering Effects in Multiple choice Exams and Interviews (AAPT Winter 2003)

Papers which have been submitted to a refereed journal: 

Working papers in draft form:

Mathematical Features of Concentration Analysis

Explicit and Implicit States of Model Mixing in Conceptual Development

The Vocabulary of Introductory Physics and Its Implications for Learning Physics

 

A two-level system model for score-based measurement

 
   This project is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number 0087788