Saalih Allie

TL;DR: In this article, student responses to written probes administered at the beginning of the year are compared to those written after a 12-week laboratory course, and the degree of consistent use of these paradigms by individual students across the sets of probes is investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, an investigation into the procedural understanding of first-year university science students at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, was conducted to explore ideas regarding the reliability of experimental data, in particular the need for repeating measurements and the implications of the spread associated with data.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that learning in engineering involves taking on the discourse of an engineering community, which is intimately bound up with the identity of being a member of that community.

TL;DR: In this article, the procedural understanding of university students at the freshman level, prior to instruction, has been investigated in the context of experimental work in physics, and two types of reasoning used by students in the laboratory, viz. point and set reasoning, are proposed and used to classify students' responses.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the efficacy of the conventional approach by analyzing the understanding of measurement of freshmen following the physics major sequence, through pre- and post-instruction tests by using an established instrument.