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| Abstract Title: | Identifying student conceptual resources for understanding electric current |
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| Abstract: | Most research focusing on student ideas about electric current frames these ideas as misconceptions, difficulties, and misunderstandings. This paper reports student resources for understanding electric current: ideas that we consider to be the "beginnings" of a scientific understanding. Here, we present three conceptual resources for understanding electric current based on our analysis of 550 written responses to conceptual circuits questions from introductory-level university physics students. Our aim is to offer knowledge that can support physics instructors in identifying and building on these resources during instruction. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session III |
| Poster Number: | 3.I2 |
| Contributed Paper Record: | Contributed Paper Information |
| Contributed Paper Download: | Download Contributed Paper |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Lauren C. Bauman Quest University Squamish, Non U.S. Phone: 7789901660 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Jonathan Corcoran Seattle Pacific University Lisa M. Goodhew University of Washington Amy D. Robertson Seattle Pacific University |
