home - login - register

» home » Search » Search Results

Search Results

You may use the options below to change your display:
Alter display preferences

The following options can help you tailor your search display:

results per page
Restricted to General Topic: Thermo & Stat Mech
Restricted to Specific Topic: First Law
Close your folders

Refine your search


Narrow your results

By Subject:
By Resource Type:
By Publication Format:
By PER-Central Type:
By Context:
  • (1)
  • (2)
  • (3)
  • (20)
  • (8)
  • (5)
By Collection:


|  Next >>   
Results #1-#10 of 25
sort by: relevance | subject | date | title | author
Exploring student conceptual resources about heat and temperature 
  
More...
Match Score:
100
Category:
PER Literature
 Post a comment | Relations
Y. Abraham, M. Valentin, B. Hansen, L. Bauman, and A. Robertson, PERC 2021 Proceedings, 21-26.
Previous literature about students’ understanding of heat and temperature primarily emphasizes students’ misunderstandings of canonical physics concepts. In our study, we used a…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15719&DocID=5453
Physical Review Physics Education Research
Observing whiteness in introductory physics: A case study 
  
More...
Match Score:
100
Category:
PER Literature
 Post a comment
A. Robertson and W. Hairston, Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 18 (1), 010119 (2022).
Within whiteness, the organization of social life is in terms of a center and margins that are based on dominance, control, and a transcendent figure that is consistently and…
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.18.010119
Identifying student resources for reasoning microscopically about heat and temperature 
  
More...
Match Score:
100
Category:
PER Literature
 Post a comment | Relations
A. Alesandrini, T. Huynh, L. Bauman, and A. Robertson, PERC 2022 Proceedings, 37-43.
We identify three conceptual resources that introductory physics students in our sample commonly use when reasoning microscopically about thermal physics topics: 1) differences will…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16206&DocID=5575
Physics Today
Reinventing physics for life-sciences majors 
  
More...
Match Score:
100
Category:
PER Literature
 Post a comment
D. Meredith and E. Redish, Phys. Today, 66 (7), 38-43 (2013).
Physics departments have long been providing service courses for premedical students and biology majors. But in the past few decades, the life sciences have grown explosively as new…
https://doi.org/10.1063/pt.3.2046
American Journal of Physics
Resource Letter TTSM-1: Teaching Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics in Introductory Physics, Chemistry, and Biology 
  
More...
Match Score:
100
Category:
PER Literature
 Post a comment
B. Dreyfus, B. Geller, D. Meltzer, and V. Sawtelle, Am. J. Phys., 83 (1), 5-21 (2014).
This Resource Letter draws on discipline-based education research from physics, chemistry, and biology to collect literature on the teaching of thermodynamics and statistical…
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4891673
Physical Review Physics Education Research
Development and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument to assess student understanding of introductory thermodynamics 
  
More...
Match Score:
100
Category:
PER Literature
 Post a comment
M. Brundage and C. Singh, Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 19 (2), 020112 (2023).
This paper discusses the development and validation of the long version of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument called the Survey of Thermodynamic Processes and First and…
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.19.020112
Students’ interpretations of disciplinary convention with the first law of thermodynamics 
  
More...
Match Score:
100
Category:
PER Literature
 Post a comment | Relations
A. Parobek and M. Towns, PERC 2023 Proceedings, 272-277.
The transfer of knowledge within and across disciplines remains a compelling challenge for modern STEM education and further research is needed to expand on the student-exhibited…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16595&DocID=5775
The Physics Teacher
Energy Tracking Diagrams 
  
More...
Match Score:
100
Categories:
PER Literature
Curriculum / Pedagogy Guide
Curriculum
 Post a comment | Relations
R. Scherr, B. Harrer, H. Close, A. Daane, L. DeWater, A. Robertson, L. Seeley, and S. Vokos, Phys. Teach., 54 (2), 96-102 (2016).
Energy is a crosscutting concept in science and features prominently in national science education documents. In the Next Generation Science Standards, the primary conceptual…
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4940173
The Physics Teacher
Energy Cubes 
  
More...
Match Score:
100
Categories:
Curriculum / Student Activity
Curriculum
 Post a comment | Relations
L. Seeley, K. Gray, and A. Robertson, Phys. Teach., 59 (2), 89-93 (2021).
The Next Generation Science Standards lay out a model of energy that locates energy within objects and fields, and tracks energy as it transfers between these objects and transforms…
https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0003457
Introductory and advanced students’ difficulties with thermodynamic work 
  
More...
Match Score:
100
Category:
PER Literature
 Post a comment | Relations
D. Meltzer, M. Brundage, and C. Singh, PERC 2024 Proceedings, 286-292.
We use the Survey of Thermodynamic Processes and First and Second Laws-Long (STPFaSL-Long), a research-based survey instrument with 78 items at the level of introductory physics, to…
https://www.per-central.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16911&DocID=5978
|  Next >>   
Results #1-#10 of 25