Assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems: Pandemic online and in-person
We present an analysis of students’ thinking skills as evidenced by free-response exam problems during the Covid-19 pandemic. We compare two inquiry-based, laboratory-based classical mechanics courses, one taught online and one taught in person during the pandemic, and two inquiry-based, laboratory-...
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| description | We present an analysis of students’ thinking skills as evidenced by free-response exam problems during the Covid-19 pandemic. We compare two inquiry-based, laboratory-based classical mechanics courses, one taught online and one taught in person during the pandemic, and two inquiry-based, laboratory-based electricity and magnetism courses, one taught online and the other in person during the pandemic. We use a rubric that was previously developed based on Bloom’s taxonomy (revised version) to compare the thinking skills of students in classes taught by different pedagogies. We discuss the method and analysis, and present results and interpretations. No significant differences were found in thinking skills between students in the online and in-person pandemic classical mechanics courses. However, we did see a difference in the thinking skills between the online and in-person pandemic electricity and magnetism courses as the semester progressed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9b964a495cc24801acdb980ad829f82e2023-05-04T14:04:15ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPhysical Review Physics Education Research2469-98962023-05-0119101013110.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.19.010131Assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems: Pandemic online and in-personFatema Al-SalmaniJordan JohnsonBeth ThackerWe present an analysis of students’ thinking skills as evidenced by free-response exam problems during the Covid-19 pandemic. We compare two inquiry-based, laboratory-based classical mechanics courses, one taught online and one taught in person during the pandemic, and two inquiry-based, laboratory-based electricity and magnetism courses, one taught online and the other in person during the pandemic. We use a rubric that was previously developed based on Bloom’s taxonomy (revised version) to compare the thinking skills of students in classes taught by different pedagogies. We discuss the method and analysis, and present results and interpretations. No significant differences were found in thinking skills between students in the online and in-person pandemic classical mechanics courses. However, we did see a difference in the thinking skills between the online and in-person pandemic electricity and magnetism courses as the semester progressed.http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.19.010131 |
| spellingShingle | Fatema Al-Salmani Jordan Johnson Beth Thacker Assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems: Pandemic online and in-person Physical Review Physics Education Research |
| title | Assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems: Pandemic online and in-person |
| title_full | Assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems: Pandemic online and in-person |
| title_fullStr | Assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems: Pandemic online and in-person |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems: Pandemic online and in-person |
| title_short | Assessing thinking skills in free-response exam problems: Pandemic online and in-person |
| title_sort | assessing thinking skills in free response exam problems pandemic online and in person |
| url | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.19.010131 |
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