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Dreyfus, Benjamin W.; Sawtelle, Vashti; Turpen, Chandra; Gouvea, Julia; Redish, Edward F. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
As interdisciplinary courses are developed, instructors and researchers have to grapple with questions of how students should make connections across disciplines. We explore the issue of interdisciplinary reconciliation (IDR): how students reconcile seemingly contradictory ideas from different disciplines. While IDR has elements in common with…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Physics, Biology, Science Instruction
Watkins, Jessica; Coffey, Janet E.; Redish, Edward F.; Cooke, Todd J. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
Educators and policy makers have advocated for reform of undergraduate biology education, calling for greater integration of mathematics and physics in the biology curriculum. While these calls reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of biology research, crossing disciplinary boundaries in the classroom carries epistemological challenges…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Physics, Biology, Undergraduate Students
Bao, Lei; Redish, Edward F. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2006
Decades of education research have shown that students can simultaneously possess alternate knowledge frameworks and that the development and use of such knowledge are context dependent. As a result of extensive qualitative research, standardized multiple-choice tests such as Force Concept Inventory and Force-Motion Concept Evaluation tests…
Descriptors: Physics, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis, Prior Learning
Dreyfus, Benjamin W.; Geller, Benjamin D.; Gouvea, Julia; Sawtelle, Vashti; Turpen, Chandra; Redish, Edward F. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
Teaching about energy in interdisciplinary settings that emphasize coherence among physics, chemistry, and biology leads to a more central role for chemical bond energy. We argue that an interdisciplinary approach to chemical energy leads to modeling chemical bonds in terms of negative energy. While recent work on ontological metaphors for energy…
Descriptors: Energy, Science Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Physics
Bing, Thomas J.; Redish, Edward F. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
Physics students can encounter difficulties in physics problem solving as a result of failing to use knowledge that they have but do not perceive as relevant or appropriate. In previous work we have demonstrated that some of these difficulties may be epistemological. Students may limit the kinds of knowledge that they use. For example, they may…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Physics, Problem Solving, Epistemology
Tuminaro, Jonathan; Redish, Edward F. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2007
Although much is known about the differences between expert and novice problem solvers, knowledge of those differences typically does not provide enough detail to help instructors understand why some students seem to learn physics while solving problems and others do not. A critical issue is how students access the knowledge they have in the…
Descriptors: Physics, Problem Solving, Phenomenology, Science Instruction