Web-Based Physics Homework at Western Kentucky University

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Web-Based Physics Homework atWestern Kentucky
University

• Doug Harper
• Department of Physics and Astronomy
• Doug.Harper_at_wku.edu

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Homework Systems used at WKU

• CHIP (Computerized Homework in Physics)
  1999-2001Purdue University
• WebAssign 2001-2003North Carolina State
  University
• MasteringPhysics 2003-2004Pearson Education,
  Addison Wesley

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Primary Reasons we chose MasteringPhysics

• Improved teaching value
• Problems with HINTS help the student who says I
  dont know where to start this problem.
• Problems with Wrong Answer Feedback help the
  student who says I got the wrong answer but I
  dont know why?
• Improved recognition of symbolic answers.

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