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Miller, Kelly; Lasry, Nathaniel; Chu, Kelvin; Mazur, Eric – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
Previous research suggests that students; prior knowledge can interfere with how they observe and remember lecture demonstrations. We measured students' prior knowledge in introductory mechanics and electricity and magnetism at two large universities. Students were then asked to predict the outcome of lecture demonstrations. We compare…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Lecture Method, Scientific Concepts, Demonstrations (Educational)
Leinonen, Risto; Asikainen, Mervi A.; Hirvonen, Pekka E. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
As has been shown by previous research, students may possess various misconceptions in the area of thermal physics. In order to help them overcome misconceptions observed prior to instruction, we implemented a one-hour lecture-based intervention in their introductory thermal physics course. The intervention was held after the conventional lectures…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Thermodynamics, Scientific Concepts
Ibrahim, Bashirah; Rebello, N. Sanjay – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
In this paper, we report on a project concerned with the role of cognition during problem solving. We specifically explore the categories of mental representations that students work with during problem solving of different representational task formats. The sample, consisting of 19 engineering students taking a calculus-based physics course,…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Physics
Smith, Trevor I.; Thompson, John R.; Mountcastle, Donald B. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
One goal of physics instruction is to have students learn to make physical meaning of specific mathematical expressions, concepts, and procedures in different physical settings. As part of research investigating student learning in statistical physics, we are developing curriculum materials that guide students through a derivation of the Boltzmann…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Mechanics (Physics), Mathematics, Scientific Concepts
Steinberg, Richard; Cormier, Sebastien – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
This study reports on a content course for science immersion teacher candidates that emphasized authentic practice of science and thinking scientifically in the context of introductory astrophysics. We explore how 122 science teacher candidates spanning three cohorts did and did not reason scientifically and how this evolved in our program. Our…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Course Content, Motion
Harrer, Benedikt W.; Flood, Virginia J.; Wittmann, Michael C. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
For over 30 years, researchers have investigated students' ideas about energy with the intent of reforming instructional practice. In this pursuit, Watts contributed an influential study with his 1983 paper "Some alternative views of energy" ["Phys. Educ." 18, 213 (1983)]. Watts' "alternative frameworks"…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Energy
Lin, Shih-Yin; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
In this study, we examine introductory physics students' ability to perform analogical reasoning between two isomorphic problems which employ the same underlying physics principles but have different surface features. 382 students from a calculus-based and an algebra-based introductory physics course were administered a quiz in the recitation…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Problem Solving, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Wieman, Carl; Deslauriers, Louis; Gilley, Brett – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
We have examined the teaching practices of faculty members who adopted research-based instructional strategies (RBIS) as part of the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (CWSEI) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Of the 70 that adopted such strategies with the support of the CWSEI program, only one subsequently stopped using these…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, College Science
Zhu, Guangtian; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
We describe the difficulties advanced undergraduate and graduate students have with concepts related to addition of angular momentum in quantum mechanics. We also describe the development and implementation of a research-based learning tool, Quantum Interactive Learning Tutorial (QuILT), to reduce these difficulties. The preliminary evaluation…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Concept Teaching, Scientific Concepts, Program Descriptions
Nivalainen, V.; Asikainen, M. A.; Hirvonen, P. E. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
This study explores third-year preservice physics teachers' (n=32) views concerning the objectives of practical work at school and university. Content analysis of their essays about practical work revealed not only the objectives of the practical work undertaken but also how they had experienced teaching as school and university students. The…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Preservice Teachers, Student Experience, Teaching Experience
Teodorescu, Raluca E.; Bennhold, Cornelius; Feldman, Gerald; Medsker, Larry – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
This paper describes research on a classification of physics problems in the context of introductory physics courses. This classification, called the Taxonomy of Introductory Physics Problems (TIPP), relates physics problems to the cognitive processes required to solve them. TIPP was created in order to design educational objectives, to develop…
Descriptors: Physics, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Design, Taxonomy
Savinainen, Antti; Makynen, Asko; Nieminen, Pasi; Viiri, Jouni – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
Earlier research has shown that after physics instruction, many students have difficulties with the force concept, and with constructing free-body diagrams (FBDs). It has been suggested that treating forces as interactions could help students to identify forces as well as to construct the correct FBDs. While there is evidence that identifying…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Visual Aids
Hull, Michael M.; Kuo, Eric; Gupta, Ayush; Elby, Andrew – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
Much research in engineering and physics education has focused on improving students' problem-solving skills. This research has led to the development of step-by-step problem-solving strategies and grading rubrics to assess a student's expertise in solving problems using these strategies. These rubrics value "communication" between the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Scoring Rubrics, Mathematical Logic, Logical Thinking
Kryjevskaia, Mila; Stetzer, MacKenzie R.; Heron, Paula R. L. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
In a previous paper that focused on the transmission of periodic waves at the boundary between two media, we documented difficulties with the basic concepts of wavelength, frequency, and propagation speed, and with the relationship v=f[lambda]. In this paper, we report on student attempts to apply this relationship in problems involving two-source…
Descriptors: Optics, Physics, Scientific Concepts, College Science
Wemyss, Thomas; van Kampen, Paul – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
We have investigated the various approaches taken by first-year university students (n[image omitted]550) when asked to determine the direction of motion, the constancy of speed, and a numerical value of the speed of an object at a point on a numerical linear distance-time graph. We investigated the prevalence of various well-known general…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Physics, College Science, Graphs