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Exploring the Feasibility of Employing a Hybrid Machine Learning Method to Unpack Student Reasoning Patterns in Physics Essays

Winter Allen, N. Sanjay Rebello ยท 2025

We propose a novel clustering pipeline that combines two classic clustering algorithms to better understand student problem-solving strategies. This unsupervised machine learning method helps uncover โ€ฆ

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VirtualRelativity: An Interactive Simulation of the Special Theory of Relativity in Virtual Reality

Alberto Boffi, Ezio Puppin, Maurizio Contran ยท 2024

The Special Theory of Relativity, introduced by Albert Einstein in the early 20th century, marked a radical shift in our understanding of space and time. Nevertheless, the theory's non-intuitive impliโ€ฆ

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Using the Julia framework to teach quantum entanglement

Shlomo Kashani, David Zaret ยท 2023

Entanglement, a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists since its discovery, has been extensively studied by many researchers through both theoretical and experimental aspect of both quantum informatioโ€ฆ

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Playing with a Quantum Computer

Rainer Muller, Franziska Greinert ยท 2021

The high public attention given to quantum computing shows that it is perceived as an interesting topic. We want to utilize this motivating effect for the teaching and learning of quantum physics. Speโ€ฆ

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How We Do It: A Multicenter National Experience of Virtual Vascular Surgery Rotations.

Joel Harding, Jonathan Cardella, Dawn Coleman, Gloria Y Kim, Malachi Sheahan, Mathew Wooster, Mary Ottinger, Misty Dawn Humphries ยท 2021

To describe the development and implementation of virtual vascular surgery rotations among 6 integrated vascular surgery programs. A collaborative teleconference retrospectively discussing 6 independeโ€ฆ

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Conceptual physical education: A course for the future.

Charles B Corbin ยท 2021

The conceptual physical education (CPE) innovation began in the mid-20th century as an alternative approach to college-level, activity-only basic instruction classes. In addition to physical activity โ€ฆ

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Why aren't more theories named after women?: Teaching women's history in physics

Beth Parks ยท 2020

Barriers to women's education and employment in Europe and the U.S. in the nineteenth century made it unlikely that any women would be among the few physicists whose ideas are taught in high school anโ€ฆ

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A study on pre-service physics teachers' conceptualization on elementary quantum mechanics

Glauco Cohen F. Pantoja ยท 2020

In this work, we present the results of a research in which we aimed to evidence obstacles and advances in pre-service teachers' conceptualization on a subject involving elementary Quantum Mechanics. โ€ฆ

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Pondering zeros: analysis of a decade of blanks and missed quizzes

Cassandra Paul, David J. Webb, Mary K. Chessey, James Lucas ยท 2018

When assessing student work, graders will often find that some students will leave one or more problems blank on assessments. Since there is no work shown, the grader has no means to evaluate the studโ€ฆ

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Variation of Instructor-Student Interactions in an Introductory Interactive Physics Course

Emily A. West, Cassandra A. Paul, David Webb, Wendell H. Potter ยท 2012

The physics instruction at UC Davis for life science majors takes place in a long-standing reformed large-enrollment physics course in which the discussion/lab instructors (primarily graduate student โ€ฆ

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A class where qualitative discussions, coming weeks before computationally complicated practice, helps students' problem solving abilities

D. J. Webb ยท 2012

Psychologists have long known that an expert in a field not only knows significantly more individual facts/skills than a novice but also has these facts/skills organized into a mental hierarchy that lโ€ฆ

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Sixteen years of Collaborative Learning through Active Sense-making in Physics (CLASP) at UC Davis

Wendell Potter, David Webb, Emily West, Cassandra Paul, Mark Bowen, Brenda Weiss, Lawrence Coleman, Charles De Leone ยท 2012

This paper describes our large reformed introductory physics course at UC Davis, which bioscience students have been taking since 1996. The central feature of this course is a focus on sense-making byโ€ฆ

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