TY - GEN
T1 - Using analogy to solve a three-step physics problem
AU - Lin, Shih Yin
AU - Singh, Chandralekha
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In a companion paper, we discuss students' ability to take advantage of what they learn from a solved problem and transfer their learning to solve a quiz problem that has different surface features but the same underlying physics principles. Here, we discuss students' ability to perform analogical reasoning between another pair of problems. Both the problems can be solved using the same physics principles. However, the solved problem provided was a two-step problem (which can be solved by decomposing it into two sub-problems) while the quiz problem was a three-step problem. We find that it is challenging for students to extend what they learned from a two-step problem to solve a three-step problem.
AB - In a companion paper, we discuss students' ability to take advantage of what they learn from a solved problem and transfer their learning to solve a quiz problem that has different surface features but the same underlying physics principles. Here, we discuss students' ability to perform analogical reasoning between another pair of problems. Both the problems can be solved using the same physics principles. However, the solved problem provided was a two-step problem (which can be solved by decomposing it into two sub-problems) while the quiz problem was a three-step problem. We find that it is challenging for students to extend what they learned from a two-step problem to solve a three-step problem.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79951982048&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=79951982048&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1063/1.3515228
DO - 10.1063/1.3515228
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79951982048
SN - 9780735408449
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
SP - 29
EP - 32
BT - 2010 Physics Education Research Conference, PERC
T2 - 2010 Physics Education Research Conference, PERC
Y2 - 21 July 2010 through 22 July 2010
ER -