TY - GEN
T1 - TA-designed vs. research-oriented problem solutions
AU - Lin, Shih Yin
AU - Singh, Chandralekha
AU - Mamudi, William
AU - Henderson, Charles
AU - Yerushalmi, Edit
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In order to study graduate teaching assistants (TAs) beliefs and values about the design of instructor problem solutions, twenty-four TAs were provided with different solutions and asked to discuss their preferences for prominent solution features. TAs preferences for solution features were examined in light of the modeling of expert-like problem solving process as recommended in the literature. Results suggest that while many of the features TAs valued align with expert-like problem solving approaches, they noticed primarily "surface features" of solutions. Moreover, self-reported preferences did not match well with the solutions TAs wrote on their own.
AB - In order to study graduate teaching assistants (TAs) beliefs and values about the design of instructor problem solutions, twenty-four TAs were provided with different solutions and asked to discuss their preferences for prominent solution features. TAs preferences for solution features were examined in light of the modeling of expert-like problem solving process as recommended in the literature. Results suggest that while many of the features TAs valued align with expert-like problem solving approaches, they noticed primarily "surface features" of solutions. Moreover, self-reported preferences did not match well with the solutions TAs wrote on their own.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.3680043
DO - 10.1063/1.3680043
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863166439
SN - 9780735409903
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
SP - 255
EP - 258
BT - 2011 Physics Education Research Conference
T2 - 2011 Physics Education Research Conference
Y2 - 3 August 2011 through 4 August 2011
ER -