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How students learn from multiple contexts and definitions: Proper time as a coordination class
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O. Levrini and A. diSessa, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res.,
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This article provides an empirical analysis of a single classroom episode in which students reveal difficulties with the concept of proper time in special relativity but slowly make…
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An Investigation of Student Understanding of Basic Concepts in Special Relativity
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This dissertation reports on a systematic investigation of student understanding of the concepts of time and space in special relativity. During the investigation we have identified…
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The challenge of changing deeply held student beliefs about the relativity of simultaneity
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R. Scherr, P. Shaffer, and S. Vokos, Am. J. Phys.,
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Previous research indicates that after standard instruction, students at all levels often construct a conceptual framework in which the ideas of absolute simultaneity and the…
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Alternative Conceptions in Galilean Relativity: Inertial and Non-Inertial Observers
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J. Ramadas, S. Barve, and A. Kumar, Int. J. Sci. Educ.,
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This is one in a series of three papers in which undergraduate students in India were asked questions about transformations between different frames. Both kinematical and dynamical…
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Alternative conceptions in Galilean relativity: distance, time, energy, and laws
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This is one in a series of three papers in which undergraduate students in India were asked questions about transformations between different frames. Both kinematical and dynamical…
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A case study of conceptual change in special relativity: the influence of prior knowledge in learning
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Results of a case study (one graduate physics tutor) demonstrate that a person's conceptions, which include metaphysical commitments, play a significant role in the way s/he…
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Sensemaking in special relativity: developing new intuitions
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K. Hahn, P. Emigh, and E. Gire, PERC 2019 Proceedings, 196-201.
Special relativity is both exciting and challenging in that it requires developing new intuitions about relativistic situations. How can we help students make sense of special…
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Oersted Lecture 2014: Physics education research and teaching modern Modern Physics
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Modern Physics has been used as a label for most of physics that was developed since the discovery of X-rays in 1895. Yet, we are teaching students who would not use the label…
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Teaching Special Relativity Using Physlets®
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M. Belloni, W. Christian, and M. Dancy, Phys. Teach.,
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In a recent paper in this journal we presented work on the creation and use of Physlet-based exercises to teach physical and wave optics. Since then we have developed ready-to-run…
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Student perspective of and experience with sense-making: a case study
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M. Lenz, K. Hahn, P. Emigh, and E. Gire, PERC 2017 Proceedings, 240-243.
One difference between expert and novice problem-solvers is their use of sense-making strategies. Sense-making while solving physics problems involves coordinating the use of…
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