Exploring Undergraduate Students' Computational Modeling Abilities and Conceptual Understanding of Electric Circuits

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dc.citation.journalTitleIEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATIONeng
dc.contributor.authorOrtega-Alvarez J.D.
dc.contributor.authorSanchez W.
dc.contributor.authorMagana A.J.
dc.contributor.departmentUniversidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería de Procesosspa
dc.contributor.researchgroupDesarrollo y Diseño de Procesosspa
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-12T19:06:21Z
dc.date.available2021-04-12T19:06:21Z
dc.date.issued2018-08-01
dc.description.abstractContribution: This paper adds to existing literature on teaching basic concepts of electricity using computer-based instruction; findings suggest that students can develop an accurate understanding of electric circuits when they generate multiple and complementary representations that build toward computational models. Background: Several studies have explored the efficacy of computer-based, multi-representational teaching of electric circuits for novice learners. Existing research has found that instructional use of computational models that move from abstract to concrete representations can foster students' comprehension of electric circuit concepts, but other features of effective instruction using computational models need further investigation. Research Questions: 1) Is there a correlation between students' representational fluency and their ability to reason qualitatively on electric circuits? and 2) Is the quality of student-generated computational representations correlated to their conceptual understanding of electric circuits? Methodology: The study comprised two cases in which 51 sophomore-engineering students completed a voluntary assignment designed to assess their representational fluency and conceptual understanding of electric circuits. Qualitative insights from the first case informed the design of a scoring rubric that served as both the assessment and the data collection instrument. Findings: The results suggest that a multi-representational approach aimed at the construction of computational models can foster conceptual understanding of electric circuits. The number and quality of students' representations showed a positive correlation with their conceptual understanding. In particular, the quality of the computational representations was found to be highly, and significantly, correlated with the correctness of students' answers to qualitative reasoning questions. © 1963-2012 IEEE.eng
dc.identifierhttps://eafit.fundanetsuite.com/Publicaciones/ProdCientif/PublicacionFrw.aspx?id=8046
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/TE.2018.2822245
dc.identifier.issn00189359
dc.identifier.issn15579638
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10784/28261
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
dc.relationDOI;10.1109/TE.2018.2822245
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dc.rightshttps://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/0018-9359
dc.sourceIEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION
dc.subjectComputation theoryeng
dc.subjectComputer circuitseng
dc.subjectEducationeng
dc.subjectEducation computingeng
dc.subjectElectric network analysiseng
dc.subjectElectrical engineeringeng
dc.subjectEngineering educationeng
dc.subjectJob analysiseng
dc.subjectMathematical modelseng
dc.subjectStudentseng
dc.subjectTiming circuitseng
dc.subjectCognitioneng
dc.subjectComputational modeleng
dc.subjectComputer engineeringeng
dc.subjectIntegrated circuit modelingeng
dc.subjectMediaeng
dc.subjectMental modeleng
dc.subjectrubriceng
dc.subjectsimulationeng
dc.subjectTask analysiseng
dc.subjectElectric network parameterseng
dc.titleExploring Undergraduate Students' Computational Modeling Abilities and Conceptual Understanding of Electric Circuitseng
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