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Gray, Kara E.; Wittmann, Michael C.; Vokos, Stamatis; Scherr, Rachel E. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) provide a succession of objectives for energy learning and set an expectation for teachers to assess learners' representations of energy in a variety of science contexts. To support teachers in evaluating the extent to which representations of energy display NGSS objectives, we have (i) discerned the…
Descriptors: Energy, Models, Science Education, Scientific Concepts
Etkina, Eugenia; Gitomer, Drew; Iaconangelo, Charles; Phelps, Geoffrey; Seeley, Lane; Vokos, Stamatis – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
Research into teacher learning and practice over the last three decades shows that the teachers of a specific subject need to possess knowledge that is different from the knowledge of other content experts. Yet this specialized version of content knowledge that teachers need to plan instruction, respond to student ideas, and assess student…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Energy, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science
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
Scherr, Rachel E.; Close, Hunter G.; Close, Eleanor W.; Flood, Virginia J.; McKagan, Sarah B.; Robertson, Amy D.; Seeley, Lane; Wittmann, Michael C.; Vokos, Stamatis – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
We provide evidence that a learning activity called Energy Theater engages learners with key conceptual issues in the learning of energy, including disambiguating matter flow and energy flow and theorizing mechanisms for energy transformation. A participationist theory of learning, in which learning is indicated by changes in speech and behavior,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Learning Activities, Energy
Scherr, Rachel E.; Close, Hunter G.; McKagan, Sarah B.; Vokos, Stamatis – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
The nature of energy is not typically an explicit topic of physics instruction. Nonetheless, verbal and graphical representations of energy articulate models in which energy is conceptualized as a quasimaterial substance, a stimulus, or a vertical location. We argue that a substance ontology for energy is particularly productive in developing…
Descriptors: Energy, Physics, Science Instruction, Concept Formation
Scherr, Rachel E.; Close, Hunter G.; Close, Eleanor W.; Vokos, Stamatis – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
The Energy Project at Seattle Pacific University has developed representations that embody the substance metaphor and support learners in conserving and tracking energy as it flows from object to object and changes form. Such representations enable detailed modeling of energy dynamics in complex physical processes. We assess student learning by…
Descriptors: Energy, Physics, Science Instruction, Concept Formation