Assessing the impact of representational and contextual problem features on student use of right-hand rules
Students in introductory physics struggle with vector algebra and these challenges are often associated with contextual and representational features of the problems. Performance on problems about cross product direction is particularly poor and some research suggests that this may be primarily due...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Physics Education Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.12.010102 |