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Session:
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PER: Assessment, Grading and Feedback
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Paper Type:
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Contributed
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Title:
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Influence of Assessment Features on Student Epistemologies in Physics
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Meeting:
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2019 Summer Meeting: Provo, UT |
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Location:
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N/A |
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Date:
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Time:
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5:15PM
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Author:
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Kelli Shar, University of Tampa
4122976845, kelli.shar@spartans.ut.edu
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Co-Author(s):
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Rosemary S. Russ, James T. Laverty
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Abstract:
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Assessment is a fundamental aspect of education and usually is considered as a route to obtain information about student learning. Instead, this project explores the ability of physics assessment questions to send information to the students about what faculty and researchers think it means to know and do physics. We focused on the effects of assessment features on how students engaged with the assignment. To do this, we analyzed recordings of students completing a variety of introductory level physics problems for Epistemological Frame and Resource use. We found that Frame shifts are rare, but they can be triggered by a shift in Resource, which can be activated by assessment feature. This work extends existing work on epistemological framing into the realm of assessment and allows us to consider the effects of assessments on our students' understanding of physics teaching and learning.
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Footnotes:
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None
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Presentation:
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KShar_InfluenceofAssessment.pdf
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