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Exploring Student Understanding of Atoms and Radiation with the Atom Builder Simulator
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Andy Johnson and Anna Hafele
Learning about radiation requires understanding the general structure of atoms, but many college physics students do not have such understandings. In our efforts to develop inquiry based materials on radiation, we have accumulated additional evidence showing that certain students do indeed have substantial difficulties understanding the basic structure and properties of atoms, and that these difficulties impair their understandings of the simplest radiation processes--emission and ionization. This paper reports on our investigations of student difficulties in understanding basic properties of atoms and ionization and radioactivity. We also describe results from a class using a new pedagogical simulator--the Atom Builder--and provide evidence for marked improvement in student understanding.
Physics Education Research Conference 2010
Part of the PER Conference series Portland, Oregon: July 21-22, 2010 Volume 1289, Pages 177-180
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![]() Johnson, Andy, and Anna Hafele. "Exploring Student Understanding of Atoms and Radiation with the Atom Builder Simulator." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, July 21-22, 2010. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12740&DocID=3285 (accessed 16 February 2025).
![]() Johnson, Andy, and Anna Hafele. "Exploring Student Understanding of Atoms and Radiation with the Atom Builder Simulator." Physics Education Research Conference 2010. Portland, Oregon: 2010. 177-180 Vol. 1289 of PER Conference. 16 Feb. 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12740&DocID=3285>.
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Title = {Exploring Student Understanding of Atoms and Radiation with the Atom Builder Simulator},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2010},
Pages = {177-180},
Address = {Portland, Oregon},
Series = {PER Conference},
Volume = {1289},
Month = {July 21-22},
Year = {2010}
}
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