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| Abstract Title: | Identifying student resources for understanding linear momentum |
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| Abstract: | Much existing physics education research (PER) on student ideas about momentum focuses on the difficulties that students face when learning this topic. These difficulties are framed as obstacles for students to overcome in order to develop correct understandings of physics. Our research takes a resources-oriented approach to analyzing student responses to momentum questions, viewing student ideas as valuable and potentially productive for learning, over and above their correctness. Here, we highlight four conceptual resources that provide insight into students' ideas about momentum, which are the conservation resource, direction resource, collisions resource and properties resource These resources are context-dependent and could be elicited and built on by instructors to support students in developing more complex and sophisticated understandings of physics. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session 2 Room A |
| Poster Number: | 2A-23 |
| Contributed Paper Record: | Contributed Paper Information |
| Contributed Paper Download: | Download Contributed Paper |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Brynna Hansen Seattle Pacific University Seattle, WA 98119 Phone: 7754344438 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Lauren C. Bauman, Yohannes M. Abraham, Mikayla Valentin, and Amy D. Robertson |
