Competencies of data analysis and interpretation on an educational Physics experiment by undergraduate students
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Sep 16, 2024
Keywords:
Educational experiment Physics education Scientific competencies
Abstract
Data analysis and interpretation are integral parts of laboratory Physics education. The scientific reports from 30 undergraduate Engineering students about a Classical Mechanics experiment were analysed concerning the practice of relevant inquiry competencies. About one third of them omit main features in graph creation. Moreover, and the conceptualization of experimental errors, and significant figures seem not to be understood to a large extent in depth. It is common not to understand the main purpose of the experiment, since students usually do not answer the initial inquiry question through explicit references to the conceptual theoretical framework.
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