These tools are useful in the characterization of student thinking in conceptual areas related to experimental design.
Clearly a more accurate alternative would be to plot misconceptions and cant on the Y and Z axes, respectively, so as to generate a three- rather than a two-dimensional characterization of student responses.
Re "Politeness and Authority at a Hilltop College in Minnesota," by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Editorial Observer, Oct. 15): As a female senior at Gustavus Adolphus College, I must respond to what I feel is an unfair and overly broad characterization of female students on my campus.
This example illustrates how, at a glance, this visual representation of the COPUS results provides a highly informative characterization of the student and instructor activities in a class.
Through such an approach, sample size could be greatly increased to yield a more complete characterization of the student community in a particular school system.
I deeply resent Denise Clark Pope's characterization of "high-achieving students" as morally corrupt schemers who cheat their way into an Ivy League education (Op-Ed, April 13).
Using a modified version of Toulmin's characterization of argumentation to describe instances of students coconstructing reasoning, Kulatunga et al.
How many times in defining it, the curriculum asks, do the terms "Muslim" and "Middle East" come up, and how does that compare with the characterization of Japanese-Americans who, as the students learn, were sent to internment camps in World War II?
Expansion of the open-response scoring rubric to include finer characterization of responses would reveal changes in students' thinking over that time frame.
This study provides a comprehensive characterization of attitudes toward gay men endorsed by students at a large U.S. medical school comprising a diverse student body.
