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Part I: How Did We Get Here? College Students' Preinstructional Ideas on the Topic of Planet Formation, and the Development of the Planet Formation Concept Inventory. Part II: Evidence for Magnetically Driven Protoplanetary Disk Winds
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Simon, Molly Nora – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation includes two independent research projects, one in astronomy education research and the other in planetary science/astrophysics research. In the first research effort, we investigate college students' conceptual and reasoning difficulties on the topic of planet formation pre-instruction. Through an analysis of over 1,000…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Concept Formation, Knowledge Level