Influence of Visual Cuing and Correctness Feedback on Problem Solving

• In Event: Poster Session 7
  In Poster Session: Exploring the Space of Science Pedagogical Practices

Abstract

Research has demonstrated that attentional cues overlaid on diagrams and animations can help students attend to the relevant areas and facilitate problem solving. We investigate the influence of visual cues and correctness feedback on students’ performance on problems containing a diagram. The participants (N=90) were enrolled in an introductory physics course. During each individual interview students solved four problem sets each containing an initial problem, six isomorphic training problems, and a transfer problem. The cued conditions saw visual cues on the training problems, and the feedback conditions were told if their responses (answer and explanation) were correct or incorrect. We found that visual cues and correctness feedback significantly improves students’ abilities to solve the training and transfer problems.

Authors

• Amy Rouinfar, Kansas State University

• Elise Agra, Kansas State University

• Jeffrey Murray, Kansas State University

• Adam Larson, Kansas State University

• Lester Loschky, Kansas State University

• N. Sanjay Rebello, Kansas State University