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The Effect of Field Representation on Student Responses to Magnetic Force Questions
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Thomas M. Scaife and Andrew F. Heckler
We examine student understanding of the magnetic force exerted on a charged particle and report three findings from a series of tests administered to introductory physics students. First, we expand on previous findings that many students believe in "charged" magnetic poles and find that although students may answer according to a model where a positive charge is attracted to a south pole and repulsed by a north, these students may not believe that the poles are charged. Additional models produce identical answer schemes, the primary being magnetic force parallel to magnetic field. Second, the representation format affects responses: students answer differently when the magnetic field is portrayed by a field source vs. by field lines. Third, after traditional instruction improvement in student performance is greater on questions portraying field lines than for questions portraying field sources.
Physics Education Research Conference 2007
Part of the PER Conference series Greensboro, NC: August 1-2, 2007 Volume 951, Pages 180-183
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<a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=9102">Scaife, Thomas, and Andrew F. Heckler. "The Effect of Field Representation on Student Responses to Magnetic Force Questions." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2007, Greensboro, NC, August 1-2, 2007.</a>
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T. Scaife and A. Heckler, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2007, Greensboro, NC, 2007, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9102&DocID=2017).
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T. Scaife and A. Heckler, The Effect of Field Representation on Student Responses to Magnetic Force Questions, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2007, Greensboro, NC, 2007, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9102&DocID=2017>.
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Scaife, T., & Heckler, A. (2007, August 1-2). The Effect of Field Representation on Student Responses to Magnetic Force Questions. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2007, Greensboro, NC. Retrieved November 2, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9102&DocID=2017
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Scaife, Thomas, and Andrew F. Heckler. "The Effect of Field Representation on Student Responses to Magnetic Force Questions." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2007, Greensboro, NC, August 1-2, 2007. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9102&DocID=2017 (accessed 2 November 2024).
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Scaife, Thomas, and Andrew F. Heckler. "The Effect of Field Representation on Student Responses to Magnetic Force Questions." Physics Education Research Conference 2007. Greensboro, NC: 2007. 180-183 Vol. 951 of PER Conference. 2 Nov. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9102&DocID=2017>.
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BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2007},
Pages = {180-183},
Address = {Greensboro, NC},
Series = {PER Conference},
Volume = {951},
Month = {August 1-2},
Year = {2007}
}
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