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Record W4226137698 · doi:10.26522/brocked.v31i1.899

PhET Simulations in Undergraduate Physics

2021· article· en· W4226137698 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueBrock Education Journal · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicEducational Research and Pedagogy
Canadian institutionsThompson Rivers UniversityUniversity of the Fraser Valley
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCurriculumMathematics educationTheme (computing)Relation (database)Class (philosophy)PedagogySociologyEngineering physicsPhysicsMathematicsComputer science

Abstract

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Computer simulation educational technologies provide a convenient way of augmenting learning. Simulation technologies have been used and researched in higher education classrooms in fields such as medicine (e.g: Al-Elq, 2010), nursing (Kim, Park & Shin, 2016), and chemistry (Cheng, 2017), among others. The University of Colorado Boulder has created a large number of Physics Education Technology (PhET) computer simulations relevant to concepts in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Earth Science and Mathematics. These PhETs have been studied in relation to teaching in elementary and secondary schooling (i.e. Hensberry, Moore, Perkins, 2015). However, there is a notable gap in the literature that speaks to the connection of simulation based technologies, learning theories, and pedagogy in practice relation to teaching Physics in higher education. This action research study seeks address that gap by exploring the role of the specific and intentional inclusion of Physics Education Technology (PhET) in the curriculum and teaching practice of an undergraduate Physics class in a Canadian university. Findings centre on the theme of teaching practice change, and discovery that PhETs have value as a more capable peer in relation to Vygotsky’s (1978) zone of proximal development.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.786
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.047
GPT teacher head0.379
Teacher spread0.332 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it