{"id":178846,"date":"2016-02-09T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=b3fa744a7ff3d1cd812633fba4cf8e6a"},"modified":"2016-02-09T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T00:00:00","slug":"using-categorization-of-problems-as-an-instructional-tool-to-help-introductory-students-learnphysics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=178846","title":{"rendered":"Using categorization of problems as an instructional tool to help introductory students learn\r\nphysics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to categorize problems based upon underlying principles, rather than contexts, is<br \/>\nconsidered a hallmark of expertise in physics problem solving. With inspiration from a classic study<br \/>\nby Chi, Feltovich, and Glaser, we compared the categorization of 25 introductory mechanics problems<br \/>\nbased upon similarity of solution by students in large calculus-based introductory courses with<br \/>\nphysics faculty and PhD students. Here, we summarize the study and suggest that a categorization<br \/>\ntask, especially when conducted with students working with peers in small groups, can be an<br \/>\neffective pedagogical tool to help students in introductory physics courses learn to discern the<br \/>\nunderlying similarity between problems with diverse contexts but the same underlying physics<br \/>\nprinciples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to categorize problems based upon underlying principles, rather than contexts, is<br \/>\nconsidered a hallmark of expertise in physics problem solving. With inspiration from a classic study<br \/>\nby Chi, Feltovich, and Glaser, we compared the categori&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-178846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}