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Simon Zacharias Lahme; Pascal Klein; Antti Lehtinen; Andreas Müller; Pekka Pirinen; Lucija Roncevic; Ana Sušac – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Physics lab courses permanently undergo transformations, in recent times especially to adapt to the emergence of new digital technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic in which digital technologies facilitated distance learning. Since these transformations often occur within individual institutions, it is useful to get an overview of these…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Physics, Educational Technology
Susac, Ana; Planinic, Maja; Bubic, Andreja; Jelicic, Katarina; Palmovic, Marijan – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Previous studies have shown the important role of different representations in the teaching and learning of physics. In this study, we used eye tracking to investigate the effect of different representations on the process of answering conceptual questions. We compared students' scores and eye-tracking measures on isomorphic questions which…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Science Tests, Science Achievement, Test Items
Cvenic, Karolina Matejak; Ivanjek, Lana; Planinic, Maja; Jelicic, Katarina; Susac, Ana; Hopf, Martin; Brkic, Mateja Cindric – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Demonstration interviews with 27 high school students (18-19 years old) were conducted in Zagreb, Croatia, using several standard experiments on interference and diffraction of light. Students were asked for their predictions, observations, and explanations of the experiments. In this process, many student difficulties were identified, both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, High School Students, Science Experiments
Matejak Cvenic, Karolina; Planinic, Maja; Susac, Ana; Ivanjek, Lana; Jelicic, Katarina; Hopf, Martin – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
A new diagnostic instrument, the Conceptual Survey on Wave Optics (CSWO), was developed and validated on 224 high school students (aged 18-19 years) in Croatia. The process of test construction, which included the testing of 61 items on the total of 712 students is presented. The final version of the test consists of 26 multiple-choice items which…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Validity, Physics
Ivanjek, L.; Klein, P.; Geyer, M.-A.; Küchemann, S.; Jelicic, K.; Dahlkemper, M. N.; Susac, A. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
To investigate how physics students perceived the sudden shift to online learning at the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, 18 semistructured interviews were conducted with university students in Austria, Croatia, and Germany. Based on the interviews, a questionnaire was developed and data from N ¼ 578 physics students from five universities in…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics
Klein, P.; Ivanjek, L.; Dahlkemper, M. N.; Jelicic, K.; Geyer, M.-A.; Küchemann, S.; Susac, A. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the education system worldwide, which was forced to respond with a sudden shift to distance learning. While successful distance teaching requires careful thinking, planning, and the development of technological and human resources, there was no time for preparation in the current situation. Various…
Descriptors: Physics, College Science, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories
Cvenic, Karolina Matejak; Ivanjek, Lana; Planinic, Maja; Jelicic, Katarina; Susac, Ana; Hopf, Martin – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Polarization of light is one of the topics in the Croatian high school physics curriculum. It is taught in the final year of high school education. Twenty-seven Croatian high-school students (aged 18-19 years) were interviewed after regular instruction about their understanding of polarization of light and the model of light itself. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science
Susac, Ana; Planinic, Maja; Bubic, Andreja; Jelicic, Katarina; Ivanjek, Lana; Cvenic, Karolina Matejak; Palmovic, Marijan – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Recognition of interference and diffraction patterns is a difficult task for both high-school and university students. Many students fail to observe important features of particular patterns and identify the differences among similar patterns. In this study, we investigated if performing students' investigative experiments can help high-school…
Descriptors: Investigations, Experiments, Hands on Science, Optics
Glamocic, Džana Salibašic; Mešic, Vanes; Neumann, Knut; Sušac, Ana; Boone, William J.; Aviani, Ivica; Hasovic, Elvedin; Erceg, Nataša; Repnik, Robert; Grubelnik, Vladimir – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Item banks are generally considered the basis of a new generation of educational measurement. In combination with specialized software, they can facilitate the computerized assembling of multiple pre-equated test forms. However, for advantages of item banks to become fully realized it is important that the item banks store a relatively large…
Descriptors: Item Banks, Test Items, Item Response Theory, Item Sampling
Susac, Ana; Planinic, Maja; Bubic, Andreja; Ivanjek, Lana; Palmovic, Marijan – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Previous studies have demonstrated that students have difficulties in applying the wave model of light to explain single-slit diffraction and double-slit interference patterns. In this study, we investigated if students could recognize typical interference and diffraction patterns at all. Eye movements of high-school students were measured while…
Descriptors: Pattern Recognition, Interference (Learning), Optics, Light
Ivanjek, Lana; Shaffer, Peter; Planinic, Maja – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
The topic of atomic spectra is part of university and secondary school curricula around the world. Relatively little research, however, has been done on the learning and teaching of this subject, despite the fact that it forms a foundation for advanced study in quantum mechanics, astronomy, and astrophysics. A systematic investigation into student…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Physics
Mešic, Vanes; Neumann, Knut; Aviani, Ivica; Hasovic, Elvedin; Boone, William J.; Erceg, Nataša; Grubelnik, Vladimir; Sušac, Ana; Glamocic, Džana Salibašic; Karuza, Marin; Vidak, Andrej; Alihodžic, Adis; Repnik, Robert – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
Even graduate physics students have many misconceptions about basic wave optics phenomena. This suggests that there is much room for improvement of the traditional wave optics curriculum. An effective way for initiating a curriculum change is to reconsider and revise the expected learning outcomes and corresponding assessment instruments. By…
Descriptors: College Students, College Science, Physics, Knowledge Level
Susac, Ana; Bubic, Andreja; Planinic, Maja; Movre, Marko; Palmovic, Marijan – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
Typical physics textbook problems often include supportive diagrams that visualize the physical situation although the potential benefits of providing such diagrams is not yet fully established. We used eye tracking to explore the role of supportive diagrams in problem solving. Including a supportive diagram with the text of the problem improved…
Descriptors: Role, Visual Aids, Problem Solving, Eye Movements
Susac, Ana; Planinic, Maja; Klemencic, Damjan; Sipus, Zeljka Milin – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
The test of understanding of vectors (TUV) is a multiple-choice test that was recently developed to assess student understanding of vector concepts required in introductory physics courses at the university level. In this study, the TUV was administered to 889 first-year students at the University of Zagreb. The Rasch model was used to evaluate…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Algebra, Multiple Choice Tests, Physics
Susac, Ana; Bubic, Andreja; Kazotti, Elizabeta; Planinic, Maja; Palmovic, Marijan – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
Previous studies have identified physics students' difficulties with graph slope and area under a graph in different contexts. In this study we compared physics and nonphysics (psychology) students' understanding of graphs; i.e., we evaluated the effects of concept (graph slope vs area under graph), type of question (qualitative vs quantitative),…
Descriptors: Physics, Graphs, Psychology, Comprehension
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