Semi-quantitative diagram about temporal evolution in basic physics learning: a study with engineering students

TL;DR

This paper introduces a semi-quantitative geometric diagram technique to analyze the temporal evolution of physics learning, applied to engineering students' understanding of motion over six weeks.

Contribution

The study presents a novel semi-quantitative method combining score and homogeneity to assess physics learning progress.

Findings

Students' learning improved over time.

The diagram showed a maximum score and homogeneity of 0.75.

The technique provided both quantitative and qualitative insights.

Abstract

We show a new semi-quantitative technique of analysis about of temporal evolution of learning of basic physics concepts. In this technique we arrange a geometric diagram with the score and the homogeneity (H-S), in this diagram we have a quantitative and qualitative information about the learning of students and the effectiveness instruction. We applied this technique to study the temporal evolution of the graphical interpretation of motion in one dimension through tutorials in a introductory course physics with 20 students of engineering at the Universidad Central de Bogot\'a Colombia for a period of 6 weeks. We found in the general diagram that (Smax,Hmax)=(0.75,0.75).