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ERIC Number: EJ476648
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4308
Textbook Treatments and Students' Understanding of Acceleration.
Dall'Alba, Gloria; And Others
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, v30 n7 p621-35 Sep 1993
The ways in which the concept of acceleration is treated in physics textbooks is compared with understandings of the concept demonstrated by final-year secondary (n=30) and first-year university students (n=60). Some students' understanding are shown to be incomplete in ways that parallel misleading or inaccurate textbook treatment of the concept. (PR)
Descriptors: Acceleration (Physics), College Science, Educational Research, Elementary Education, High Schools, Higher Education, Misconceptions, Science Education, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Secondary School Science, Textbooks
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Science Education Research