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Conceptual Underpinnings of Students' Ability to Understand Reflections from a Plane Mirror 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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Education Practices / Instructional Material Design
General Physics / Physics Education Research
Optics / General
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K. Cummings and E. Grillo - Conference Proceedings
In this paper we explore students' pre-instruction knowledge of several conceptual and procedural pieces of knowledge that we believe are prerequisite to one's ability to generate…
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2084732
Student Descriptions of Refraction and Optical Fibers 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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Education Practices / Curriculum Development / Course
General Physics / Physics Education Research
Optics / Geometrical Optics / Total Internal Reflection
Optics / Geometrical Optics / Optical Instruments
Education Foundations / Assessment / Instruments
Education Foundations / Cognition / Cognition Development
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F. Mateycik, D. Wagner, J. Rivera, and S. Jennings - Conference Proceedings
This paper reports our research into how students describe and think about optical fibers and the physical phenomena of refraction and total internal reflection (TIR) basic to their…
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2084728
Applying Knowledge in New Contexts: A Comparison of Pre- and Post-Instruction Students 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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Education Foundations / Cognition
Optics / The Eye
Optics / Modern Optics
Education Foundations / Behavior / Behavior Development
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D. McBride and D. Zollman - Conference Proceedings
This study focuses on how students apply previous learning of light and basic geometric optics to the context of wavefront aberrometry. In one aspect of this study we compared the…
http://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9485&DocID=1358
Multiple Modes of Reasoning in Physics Problem Solving, with Implications for Instruction 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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Education Practices / Active Learning / Problem Solving
General Physics / Physics Education Research
Optics / Geometrical Optics
Education Foundations / Cognition
Education Practices / Active Learning / Modeling
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D. Schuster, A. Undreiu, and B. Adams - Conference Proceedings
Problem-solving is an important part of physics teaching, learning and assessment. It is widely assumed that the way that experts solve problems, and students should, is by…
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820928
Investigating Students' Ideas about Wavefront Aberrometry 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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General Physics / Physics Education Research
Optics / The Eye
Education Foundations / Learning Theory
Education Practices / Instructional Material Design
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D. McBride and D. Zollman - Conference Proceedings
We describe a qualitative study of student understanding of the functions of the human eye and the resources used in understanding wavefront aberrometry, a relatively new method of…
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820918
Reasoning Modes, Knowledge Elements and Their Interplay in Optics Problem-Solving 
  
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Education Foundations / Cognition / Cognition Development
General Physics / Physics Education Research
Optics / Geometrical Optics
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A. Undreiu, D. Schuster, and B. Adams - Conference Proceedings
We have investigated how students tackle problems in geometric optics involving ray construction, to try to understand the nature and origin of the surprisingly wide variety of…
http://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8119&DocID=753
The Specificity Effect: An Example from Refraction 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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Education Practices / Pedagogy / Analogies
General Physics / Physics Education Research
Optics / General
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D. Brookes, B. Ross, and J. Mestre - Conference Proceedings
In physics instruction we often begin by presenting students with an abstract principle, and then illustrating the principle with one or more examples. We hope that students will use…
http://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8117&DocID=751
Examining Student Responses for Meaningful Understanding in the Context of Wavefront Aberrometry 
  
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Optics / The Eye
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D. McBride and D. Zollman - Conference Proceedings
We present a qualitative study from group learning and teaching interviews that were conducted as part of ongoing research to examine how students use their physics knowledge in…
http://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8100&DocID=731
Similarities and Differences In Ideas Generated by Physics Learners: US College Students Vs. Tibetan Buddhist Monks 
  
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Education Foundations / Societal Issues / International Issues
General Physics / Physics Education Research
Optics / Color
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A. Johnson - Conference Proceedings
We have used PER-based course materials to teach various physics topics to Tibetan Buddhist monks over the last four years. While listening to the monks' ideas through interpreters,…
http://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7960&DocID=691
Investigation of Student Understanding of the Wave-Like Properties of Light and Matter 
  
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Upper Undergraduate
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Education Foundations / Alternative Conceptions
Quantum Physics / Probability, Waves, and Interference
Electricity & Magnetism / Electromagnetic Radiation
Optics / Geometrical Optics
Education Practices / Curriculum Development / Course
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B. Ambrose - Thesis
The research described in this dissertation is part of an ongoing investigation of student learning of the wave-like properties of light and matter. The investigation was conducted…
http://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4725&DocID=185

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