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A Thematic Review of Some Studies Investigating Students’ Alternative Conceptions About Energy
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M. Kurna and A. Saglam-Arslan, Eurasian J. Phys. Chem. Educ.,
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This article reviews and synthesizes 25 studies on students' alternative conceptions about energy. Many papers chosen are from the Eurasian literature and therefore this paper…
https://www.ijpce.org/index.php/IJPCE/article/view/189
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Helping students to construct understanding of physics concepts and develop good problem solving skills is a central goal in many physics classrooms. This thesis examines students’…
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Intuitive ontologies for energy in physics
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R. Scherr, H. Close, and S. McKagan, PERC 2011 Proceedings, 343-346.
The nature of energy is not typically an explicit topic of physics instruction. Nonetheless, participants in physics courses that involve energy are frequently saying what kind of…
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Energy in Action: The Construction of Physics Ideas in Multiple Modes
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E. Close, H. Close, S. McKagan, and R. Scherr, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 105-108.
In a course organized around the development of diverse representations, no single mode of expression offers a complete picture of participants’ understanding of the nature of…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10400&DocID=1872
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An Evolving Model for Seeing Colored Objects: A Case Study Progression
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E. Kahle, R. Scherr, and H. Close, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 185-188.
We document the experience of a single participant in a course for secondary teacher professional development in order to track the changes in her thinking about how light interacts…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10445&DocID=1903
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Facilitating Strategies for Solving Work-Energy Problems in Graphical and Equational Representations
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D. Nguyen, E. Gire, and N. Rebello, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 241-244.
Our previous research has suggested that the major difficulty students have when solving physics problems posed in graphical and equational representations is due to students’…
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“Energy Theater”: Using The Body Symbolically To Understand Energy
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R. Scherr, H. Close, S. McKagan, and E. Close, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 293-296.
In what we call “embodied learning activities,” instructors deliberately arrange for human bodies, or parts of the body, to stand in for entities in the description or explanation of…
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The Beginnings of Energy in Third Graders’ Reasoning
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J. Radoff, F. Goldberg, D. Hammer, and S. Fargason, PERC 2010 Proceedings, 269-272.
We present snippets of third-graders discussing ideas about energy as part of their considering and comparing different ways to make a toy car start moving. This case study…
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Criteria for Creating and Categorizing Forms of Energy
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S. McKagan, R. Scherr, E. Close, and H. Close, PERC 2011 Proceedings, 279-282.
Traditional instruction on energy often presents forms of energy as a seemingly arbitrary list to be memorized, with little discussion of the meaning or purpose of these forms.…
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Classical Mechanics/Math Methods I: Course Materials
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This website provides the materials to teach a transformed sophomore-level classical mechanics/math methods course. The provided course is the first semester of a two-semester…
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