ChatGPT and deliberate practice for interpreting graphs

• Nikolaus Albrecht ^[1]
  1. [1] University College of Teacher Education Tyrol, Innsbruck, Austria
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 63, Nº. 1, 2025, págs. 70-71
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Students often see graphs as entities decoupled from reality, representations that serve their own purpose. Asking students to regularly translate between diagrams, the corresponding equations, and their physical interpretation can help them to see the physics behind the abstract modeling of a physical concept in the classroom.1 Student difficulties with reading graphs are the subject of extensive STEM education research.2 Deliberate practice and the testing effect—both well-researched phenomena in cognitive psychology—can help familiarize students with the translation between diagrams and physical concepts. But creating a large number of questions for our students is time consuming. This is where the assistance of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT becomes handy.