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Campos, Esmeralda; Zuza, Kristina; Guisasola, Jenaro; Zavala, Genaro – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
We conducted a study with introductory and upper-division physics students in a Mexican university to learn how students independently recognize the electric field's main characteristics in the electric field lines diagram and as a source or target representation in conversion processes. We used the theory of registers of semiotic representations…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Energy, Scientific Concepts
Singer, Susan R.; Nielsen, Natalie R.; Schweingruber, Heidi A. – National Academies Press, 2012
The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological sciences, geosciences, and chemistry. DBER combines knowledge of teaching and learning with deep knowledge of discipline-specific science content. It describes the…
Descriptors: Physics, Biology, Geology, Chemistry
Singer, Susan R., Ed.; Nielsen, Natalie R. Ed.; Schweingruber, Heidi A., Ed. – National Academies Press, 2012
The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological sciences, geosciences, and chemistry. DBER combines knowledge of teaching and learning with deep knowledge of discipline-specific science content. It describes the…
Descriptors: Student Attrition, Science Education, Public Agencies, Engineering Education
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Bandyopadhyay, Atanu; Kumar, Arvind – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2010
This work is an attempt to see how physics undergraduates view the basic ideas of general relativity when they are exposed to the topic in a standard introductory course. Since the subject is conceptually and technically difficult, we adopted a "case studies" approach, focusing in depth on about six students who had just finished a one semester…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Physics, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction
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Saxena, A. B. – Physics Education (India), 1988
The misconceptions related to the concepts of force and acceleration among college students are explored. Misconceptions are identified and their occurrence among a large percentage of students are observed. Provided are some implications for physics teaching and an eight-item test. (Author/YP)
Descriptors: College Science, Concept Formation, Force, Foreign Countries
Brown, David E.; Clement, John – 1989
In most research that investigates factors influencing the success of analogies in instruction, an underlying assumption is that students have little or no knowledge of the target situation. It is interesting to ask what factors influence the success of analogies when students believe they understand the target situation. If this understanding is…
Descriptors: Analogy, Case Studies, Concept Formation, Force
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Brown, David E. – Physics Education, 1989
Reports various misconceptions of Newton's third law obtained from interviews and written tests of high school students. Suggests putting emphasis on the third law in physics teaching. Ten references are listed. (YP)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Fundamental Concepts, Mechanics (Physics), Misconceptions
Clement, John – 1987
Reviewed are findings on misconceptions in mechanics and their instructional implications. Many misconceptions are widespread and resistant to change but students have useful intuitions and reasoning processes that could be used more fully. One strategy for dealing with misconceptions is described. It stresses anchoring intuitions, analogical…
Descriptors: Analogy, College Science, Concept Formation, Higher Education
Searle, Peter; Gunstone, Richard F. – 1990
This paper reports an action study of conceptual change in mechanics using an instructional strategy based on a constructivist view of learning. The aims of the study were to determine: (1) what effect the instructional strategy had on achieving conceptual change; (2) what devices or strategies students used in their attempts to understand…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, College Science, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching
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Gil-Perez, Daniel; Carrascosa, Jaime – Science Education, 1990
Discussed is a constructivist model of science learning and its possible use in the treatment of science misconceptions. Science learning as conceptual and methodological change is described. (KR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
De Jong, Eddy J.; Gunstone, Richard F. – 1988
The broad focus of this study was on the role students' existing conceptions play in the process of constructing and understanding mechanics concepts. The study was a naturalistic one, conducted over a number of years, at all grade levels, in one all-boys secondary school in Australia. In particular it was concerned with identifying and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Restructuring, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation
Clement, John; And Others – 1989
Three purposes of this study were to: (1) propose some organizing theoretical and observational definitions of the anchor construct; (2) present some initial findings from a diagnostic test designed to uncover anchors for high school physics instruction; and (3) provoke an initial discussion of the new methodological issues that arise in this…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Diagnostic Tests
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Fidelman, Uri – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1987
The ontological problem is "what exists?" The answer regarding the part of consciousness which is related to left hemisphere is that only individual discrete objects exist; objects are regarded one at a time. The answer regarding the part of consciousness which is related to right hemisphere is only comprehensive entities exist; each…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Logic
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Maloney, David P. – Physics Education, 1985
Determined: (1) whether students thought of magnetic poles as exerting forces directly on electric charges and (2) the specific strategies students used to make predictions about the forces acting on electric charges in two problem situations. Implications for instruction are considered. (JN)
Descriptors: College Science, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Higher Education
Murray, Tom; And Others – 1988
This paper evaluates the strengths and limitations of a computer tutor designed to help students understand physics concepts. The tutor uses a teaching strategy called "bridging analogies" that previous research has demonstrated to be successful in one-to-one tutoring. The strategy is designed to remedy misconceptions by appealing to existing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, College Science, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
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