Shared Resources: Engineering Students' Emerging Group Understanding of Thermodynamic Work

Background We have developed several interactive virtual laboratories (IVLs) based on a sequence of agent‐based molecular simulations designed to target specific threshold concepts to help students learn thermodynamics. We previously analyzed learning in the IVLs from a cognitive perspective, seeking to repair students' misconceptions; however, that perspective provided limited information for iteratively improving the IVLs. Purpose In this...