Abstract
Eye-tracking data confirm that students tend to divide sequential problems into subtasks and treat simultaneous problems as a single-step task.
Highlights
Research on physics problem solving abounds [1,2], it has been mostly limited to single-concept problems [3,4,5,6,7,8] involving oversimplified situations with little bearing on the real world [9]
The areas of interests (AOIs) in the diagram for the four synthesis problems are shown in the Appendix
We studied the number of gaze transitions between text and diagram, and between the different AOIs in diagram
Summary
Research on physics problem solving abounds [1,2], it has been mostly limited to single-concept problems [3,4,5,6,7,8] involving oversimplified situations with little bearing on the real world [9]. Such problems require students to apply what is being currently taught to devise a solution [10] thereby promoting algorithmic use of concepts.
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