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Koenig, Kathleen; Wood, Krista E.; Bortner, Larry J.; Bao, Lei – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2019
This article showcases how a physics lab course was successfully redesigned to promote important reasoning abilities not explicitly addressed in the typical college setting. Student development of such abilities is essential for sound decision making, particularly when living in an information age. Essential features of our guiding curricular…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Physics, Science Instruction, Logical Thinking
Chen, Cheng; Bao, Lei; Fritchman, Joseph C.; Ma, Hemin – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Causal reasoning is a fundamental cognitive process that supports a wide range of learning activities such as making predictions and inferences, explaining phenomena, and drawing conclusions. In physics learning, causal reasoning plays an important role in developing conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills. This study builds off the…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Thinking Skills, Prediction, Inferences
Xu, Wangyi; Liu, Qiaoyi; Koenig, Kathleen; Fritchman, Joseph; Han, Jing; Pan, Sudong; Bao, Lei – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Momentum is a foundational concept in physics. Although it is often taught in introductory mechanics courses, there are a limited number of studies on this topic in the literature. The results from these studies have consistently shown that students have difficulties in understanding momentum, especially the connections between net force, time,…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Introductory Courses
Xiao, Yang; Xu, Guiqing; Han, Jing; Xiao, Hua; Xiong, Jianwen; Bao, Lei – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Concept inventories (CIs) are commonly used in pre-post instruction to study student conceptual change. For consistency in assessment interpretation, a CI's assessment construct is desired to maintain invariance across different test times. In this study, the longitudinal measurement invariance (LMI) analysis under the confirmatory factor analysis…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Mechanics (Physics)
Bao, Lei; Koenig, Kathleen; Xiao, Yang; Fritchman, Joseph; Zhou, Shaona; Chen, Cheng – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Abilities in scientific thinking and reasoning have been emphasized as core areas of initiatives, such as the Next Generation Science Standards or the College Board Standards for College Success in Science, which focus on the skills the future will demand of today's students. Although there is rich literature on studies of how these abilities…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills
Pritchard, David E.; Lee, Young-Jin; Bao, Lei – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2008
We present mathematical learning models--predictions of student's knowledge vs amount of instruction--that are based on assumptions motivated by various theories of learning: tabula rasa, constructivist, and tutoring. These models predict the improvement (on the post-test) as a function of the pretest score due to intervening instruction and also…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Constructivism (Learning), Pretests Posttests, Prior Learning