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| Abstract Title: | Pre-Service Physics Teachers’ Views about Physics Representations |
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| Abstract: | The ability to represent physics concepts in various forms is a very important skill in physics learning. Therefore, instructors have developed creative approaches by involving representations in the teaching process as a means of enhancing students' understanding. Most previous studies focused on drawing and using representations to help students learning physics concepts and solving problems. We present a study (qualitative survey) concerning pre-service physics teachers' views about physics representations during problem-solving processes. Interviews have also been conducted to investigate pre-service physics teachers' views about representations in more detail. Semi-structure interviews were used to explore deeply students' motivation to draw or not to draw representation such as free body diagrams (FBDs) while solving physics problems. We found that most students agree that drawing representations such as picture or sketch, graphs, diagrams aids them to understand physics concepts, physics problems and to find the best solution. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session I |
| Poster Number: | A83 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Judyanto Sirait University of Leicester 50 Churchill Street Leicester, LE2 1FH |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Janet Ainley, School of Education, University of Leicester Martin Barstow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester |
