{"id":426020,"date":"2017-06-26T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=7718c9165de2415bf72ea0c197de21cd"},"modified":"2017-06-26T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T23:00:00","slug":"investigating-and-improving-introductory-physics-students-understanding-of-the-electric-field-andsuperposition-principle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=426020","title":{"rendered":"Investigating and improving introductory physics students\u2019 understanding of the electric field and\r\nsuperposition principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We discuss an investigation of the difficulties that students in a university introductory physics<br \/>\ncourse have with the electric field and superposition principle and how that research was used as a<br \/>\nguide in the development and evaluation of a research-validated tutorial on these topics to help<br \/>\nstudents learn these concepts better. The tutorial uses a guided enquiry-based approach to learning<br \/>\nand involved an iterative process of development and evaluation. During its development, we obtained<br \/>\nfeedback both from physics instructors who regularly teach introductory physics in which these<br \/>\nconcepts are taught and from students for whom the tutorial is intended. The iterative process<br \/>\ncontinued and the feedback was incorporated in the later versions of the tutorial until the<br \/>\nresearchers were satisfied with the performance of a diverse group of introductory physics students<br \/>\non the post-test after they worked on the tutorial in an individual one-on-one interview situation.<br \/>\nThen the final&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We discuss an investigation of the difficulties that students in a university introductory physics<br \/>\ncourse have with the electric field and superposition principle and how that research was used as a<br \/>\nguide in the development and evaluation of a resear&#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-426020","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\/426020","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=426020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}