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Coble, Kim; Conlon, Mallory; Bailey, Janelle M. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Astronomy Education Research.] As part of a larger project studying undergraduate students' understanding of cosmology, we explored students' ideas about the curvature of the Universe. We investigated preinstruction ideas held by introductory astronomy (ASTRO 101) students at three participating…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Literacy, Astronomy
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Coble, Kim; Camarillo, Carmen T.; Nickerson, Melissa D.; Trouille, Laura E.; Bailey, Janelle M.; Cochran, Geraldine L.; Cominsky, Lynn R. – Astronomy Education Review, 2013
Recently, powerful new observations and advances in computation and visualization have led to a revolution in our understanding of the structure of the Universe. As the field of cosmology advances, it is of interest to study how student ideas relate to scientific understanding. In this paper, we examine in-depth undergraduate students' ideas on…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Undergraduate Students, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation