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Sensemaking Throughout the Physics Curriculum: Understanding Expert and Student Ideas About Sensemaking in a Physics Context

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Lenz, MacKenzie

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Physics sensemaking is a growing topic of study within the physics education community. Many lenses have been used to study sensemaking but few have considered how time and instruction can impact student sensemaking practices and ideas. In this dissertation, I present four studies that address four major questions: What sensemaking...

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Dissertation

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table, organized by student, of demographic information, sensemaking evolution, and themes surrounding
Supporting Learning and Thinking with Multiple Representations in Upper Division Physics Courses

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Alfson, Jonathan W.

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Physicists solve problems and communicate their work using many external representations, such as equations, words, diagrams, graphs, sketches, pictures, and more. To learn physics, then, students must learn to use external representations. In this dissertation, I present three manuscripts. Each manuscript discusses how upper-division Paradigms in Physics students use multiple...

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Dissertation

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literature, and a tendency toward the use of classical information processing models. They found a
Student Evaluative Sensemaking on Homework in Intermediate Mechanics

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Hahn, Kelby T.

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Physicists seek to understand the world and often use mathematics to aid in attaining that goal. Thus when doing mathematics they often interrogate their results in order to ensure that they align with their expectations and to gain new insight into how the world works. This seeking of coherence between...

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Masters Thesis

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to the students after turning the homework in; with the information that these are only 3 of many