TY - JOUR
T1 - A tutorial worksheet to help students develop the ability to interpret the dot product as a projection
AU - Barniol, Pablo
AU - Zavala, Genaro
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 by the author/s; licensee iSER, Ankara, TURKEY.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - When we administered the Test of Understanding of Vectors (TUV) to students who were completing a physics university remedial course (which covers subjects of a traditional high school physics course), we observed that they had considerable difficulties in interpreting the dot product as a projection. As a result of this, we decided to design a tutorial worksheet to guide students through the development of this skill. The worksheet was implemented with 288 students of the same course in another semester. Upon using the TUV to evaluate the students' understanding, we confirmed that the tutorial worksheet facilitated their learning. This tutorial worksheet is presented in the Appendix and might be used by other physics instructors teaching this material in high schools, colleges or universities.
AB - When we administered the Test of Understanding of Vectors (TUV) to students who were completing a physics university remedial course (which covers subjects of a traditional high school physics course), we observed that they had considerable difficulties in interpreting the dot product as a projection. As a result of this, we decided to design a tutorial worksheet to guide students through the development of this skill. The worksheet was implemented with 288 students of the same course in another semester. Upon using the TUV to evaluate the students' understanding, we confirmed that the tutorial worksheet facilitated their learning. This tutorial worksheet is presented in the Appendix and might be used by other physics instructors teaching this material in high schools, colleges or universities.
KW - Curriculum development
KW - Dot product interpretation
KW - Instructional material
KW - Tutorial worksheet
KW - Vector concepts
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U2 - 10.12973/eurasia.2016.1271a
DO - 10.12973/eurasia.2016.1271a
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84992561417
VL - 12
SP - 2387
EP - 2398
JO - Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education
JF - Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education
SN - 1305-8215
IS - 9
ER -