Abstract
Recent research in learning science has focused on students' misconceptions about emergence. In emergent phenomena, the interactions of the agents in the phenomenon aggregate and form a self-organizing pattern that can be seen at a higher level. One such emergent system, drift, is a fundamental mechanism for semiconductors. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the presence and prevalence of misconceptions about emergence students have about drift, and to determine what relationships existed between the identified misconceptions. Forty-one undergraduate engineering students participated in the written protocol study. Participants' responses were coded and analyzed using written protocol analysis. A total of 10 emergent misconceptions were observed for drift. Sixty-three percent of participant responses exhibited an emergent misconception, with participants typically anthropomorphizing the electrons' actions in the phenomenon. Quantitative analyses were completed utilizing non-parametric Kendall's taub correlation demonstrated significant relationships between the goal-directed nature of the phenomenon and electron volition (0.45,
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | 122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Making Value for Society |
| Publisher | American Society for Engineering Education |
| State | Published - 2015 |
| Event | 2015 122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition - Seattle, United States Duration: Jun 14 2015 → Jun 17 2015 |
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| Other | 2015 122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Seattle |
| Period | 6/14/15 → 6/17/15 |
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Do you catch my drift? Identification of misconceptions of emergence for the semiconductor phenomenon drift. / Nelson, Katherine G.; Brem, Sarah; McKenna, Ann; Pettinato, Eva; Husman, Jenefer.
122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Making Value for Society. American Society for Engineering Education, 2015.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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