The impact of multiple representations on students' understanding of vector field concepts: Implementation of simulations and sketching activities into lecture-based recitations in undergraduate physics.

ABSTRACT: Multiple external representations (e.g., diagrams, equations) and their interpretations play a central role in science and science learning as research has shown that they can substantially facilitate the learning and understanding of science concepts. Therefore, multiple and particularly visual representations are a core element of university physics. In electrodynamics, which students encounter already at the beginning of their studies, vector fields are a central representation typically used in two forms: the algebraic representation as a formula and the visual representation depicted by a vector field diagram. While the former is valuable for quantitative calculations, vector field diagrams are beneficial for showing many properties of a field at a glance. However, benefiting from the

SUBMITTER: Hahn L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9849893 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature