Phys. Rev. ST Physics Ed. Research 3, 020108 (2007) [12 pages]Phenomenographic study of students’ problem solving approaches in physics
This paper describes ongoing research investigating student approaches to quantitative and qualitative problem solving in physics. This empirical study was conducted using a phenomenographic approach to analyze data from individual semistructured problem solving interviews with 22 introductory college physics students. The main result of the study is a hierarchical set of categories that describe the students’ problem solving approaches in the context of introductory physics. This article is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. © 2007 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.3.020108
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.3.020108
PACS:
01.40.Fk
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