Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Assessing Student Expertise in Introductory Physics with Isomorphic
  Problems, Part I: Performance on Non-intuitive Problem Pair from Introductory
  Physics   Investigations related to expertise in problem solving and ability to
transfer learning from one context to another are important for developing
strategies to help students perform more expert-like tasks. Here we analyze
written responses to a pair of non-intuitive isomorphic problems given to
introductory physics students and discussions with a subset of students about
them. Students were asked to explain their reasoning for their written
responses. We call the paired problems isomorphic because they require the same
physics principle to solve them. However, the initial conditions are different
and the frictional force is responsible for increasing the linear speed of an
object in one of the problems while it is responsible for decreasing the linear
speed in the other problem. We categorize student responses and evaluate
student performance within the context of their evolving expertise. We compare
and contrast the patterns of student categorization for the two isomorphic
problems. We discuss why certain incorrect responses were better than others
and shed light on the evolution of students' expertise. We compare the
performance of students who worked on both isomorphic problems with those who
worked only on one of the problems to understand whether students recognized
their underlying similarity and whether isomorphic pairs gave students
additional insight in solving each problem.

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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: cs
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: eess