Surfacing learner intuitions about electrical circuit design using an open-source virtual environment 'chart-a-path'.

This article focuses on the development and evaluation of an open-source immersive virtual environment designed to help undergraduate students in an Analog Electronics course better express and understand their intuitions about electrical circuit design, particularly current flow. Co-designed with the course lecturer at Nanyang Technological University, the intervention enables students to build and manipulate three-dimensional circuit representations, embodying their conceptualizations through avatars and facilitating peer feedback and instructor insight into their learning processes. Grounded in theories of Disciplinary Intuitions and Projective Identity, the environment serves as a scaffold for making tacit learner intuitions explicit, thereby supporting formative assessment and targeted instructional intervention. The study highlights both the benefits and challenges of using immersive environments to engage students in active, embodied learning and to reveal misconceptions that traditional methods may overlook.