{"id":333363,"date":"2016-12-08T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=dca91beb0bb751bdf5784d612d7b489a"},"modified":"2016-12-08T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:00:00","slug":"self-diagnosis-as-a-tool-for-supporting-students-conceptual-understanding-and-achievements-inphysics-the-case-of-8th-graders-studying-force-and-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=333363","title":{"rendered":"Self-diagnosis as a tool for supporting students\u2019 conceptual understanding and achievements in\r\nphysics: the case of 8th-graders studying force and motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I examined the impact of a self-diagnosis activity on students\u2019 conceptual understanding and<br \/>\nachievements in physics. This activity requires students to self-diagnose their solutions to<br \/>\nproblems that they have solved on their own\u2014namely, to identify and explain their errors\u2014and<br \/>\nself-score them\u2014that is, assign scores to their solutions\u2014aided by a rubric demonstrating how to<br \/>\nsolve each problem step by step. I also examined a common practice in the physics classroom in which<br \/>\nteachers manage a whole class discussion during which they solve, together with their students,<br \/>\nproblems that students had solved on their own. Three 8th-grade classes studying force and motion<br \/>\nwith the same teacher participated. Students were first taught the unit in force and motion. Then a<br \/>\nfirst summative exam was administered. Next, two classes (59 students) were assigned to the<br \/>\nself-diagnosis activity and the other class to the whole class discussion (27 students). To assess<br \/>\nstudents\u2019 learning with these a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I examined the impact of a self-diagnosis activity on students\u2019 conceptual understanding and<br \/>\nachievements in physics. This activity requires students to self-diagnose their solutions to<br \/>\nproblems that they have solved on their own\u2014namely, to ident&#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-333363","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\/333363","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=333363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}