Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Investigating graduate student reasoning on a conceptual entropy
  questionnaire   Student learning in upper division thermal physics has not been studied to
the same extent as in other courses like electromagnetism and quantum
mechanics. Studies addressing reasoning and learning at the graduate level are
even more limited. In this study, we conducted think-aloud interviews with
eight graduate students involving questions centered around a set of entropy
related conceptual tasks, two of which are similar to tasks presented to
undergraduates in other studies. We discuss patterns in student reasoning on
each question then discuss themes that appeared across questions. We identify
conceptual resources that students frequently used to reason about the
interview tasks and compare them to prior work. We observed graduate students
commonly thinking about entropy in relationship to a number of states, even in
situations where such a connection was not directly relevant. Graduate students
also frequently made direct associations between entropy and temperature,
despite there being no general, explicit relationship between the two
quantities. On the whole, graduate students demonstrated adaptability and
metacognitive awareness in their approach to reasoning about entropy.

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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an