Students' approaches when dealing with kinematics graphs explored by eye-tracking research method

Abstrakt

The paper is focused on students graphing, particularly graphing in kinematics. The main interest of the survey was in different approaches of different students group.

Particularly, groups of students who performed the test the best and the worst and groups of students who answered a task correctly or incorrectly. Altogether 26 students participated in the survey from high schools and colleges. 7 tasks mostly adopted from TUGK test by Beichner (1994) were used for testing.

Eye tracker research method was used and data were analysed qualitatively based on heat maps of number of fixations.

Klíčová slova

• graphs
• kinematics
• physics
• students
• eye tracking
• heat maps
• qualitative survey