期刊名称:Physical Review ST Physics Education Research
电子版ISSN:1554-9178
出版年度:2007
卷号:3
期号:2
页码:20107
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.3.020107
出版社:American Physical Society
摘要:We use clustering, an analysis method not presently common to the physics education research community, to group and characterize student responses to written questions about two-dimensional kinematics. Previously, clustering has been used to analyze multiple-choice data; we analyze free-response data that includes both sketches of vectors and written elements. The primary goal of this paper is to describe the methodology itself; we include a brief overview of relevant results.