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Gupta, Ayush; Elby, Andrew; Conlin, Luke D. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
Many science education researchers have argued that learners' commitment to a substance (matter-based) ontology impedes the learning of scientific concepts that scientists typically conceptualize as processes or interactions, such as force, electric current, and heat. By this account, students' tendency to classify these entities as…
Descriptors: Physics, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
Fazio, Claudio; Di Paola, Benedetto; Guastella, Ivan – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
In this paper we discuss a study on the approaches to modeling of students of the 4-year elementary school teacher program at the University of Palermo, Italy. The answers to a specially designed questionnaire are analyzed on the basis of an "a priori" analysis made using a general scheme of reference on the epistemology of mathematics…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Teacher Education Programs, Physics, Questionnaires
Daane, Abigail R.; McKagan, Sarah B.; Vokos, Stamatis; Scherr, Rachel E. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
Research has demonstrated that many students and some teachers do not consistently apply the conservation of energy principle when analyzing mechanical scenarios. In observing elementary and secondary teachers engaged in learning activities that require tracking and conserving energy, we find that challenges to energy conservation often arise in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Energy Conservation, Scientific Concepts, Elementary School Teachers
Daane, Abigail R.; Vokos, Stamatis; Scherr, Rachel E. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) require teachers to understand aspects of energy degradation and the second law of thermodynamics, including energy's availability and usefulness, changes in energy concentration, and the tendency of energy to spread uniformly. In an effort to develop learning goals that support teachers in building…
Descriptors: Energy, Thermodynamics, Physics, Elementary School Teachers