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Volfson, Alexander; Eshach, Haim; Ben-Abu, Yuval – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2023
Circus art excites amazes and delights. Most of circus genres are based on the principles of classical physics. Dialogic discussions are known as an instrument to identify conceptual barriers (misconceptions) and facilitate their further revision. The present study integrates the three worlds: physics education, dialogic teaching and circus art;…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Recreational Activities, Scientific Concepts
Volfson, Alexander; Eshach, Haim; Ben-Abu, Yuval – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Sound is one of the most commonly used physical phenomena that most of us use without considering its nature. Moreover, students often face difficulties in understanding acoustic phenomena, the most frequent one of which is the substance-based view of sound instead of a process of pressure and density differences. The current study introduces…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Physics, Science Instruction, History Instruction
Safadi, Rafi'; Ababsy, Ranin – Physics Education, 2020
Research indicates that troubleshooting activities that require students to reflect on pre-prepared erroneous examples, i.e. erroneous solutions to problems that correspond to common naïve ideas, impact their learning positively. These include asking students to diagnose erroneous examples; in other words, detect the conceptual errors and then…
Descriptors: Troubleshooting, Error Correction, Demonstrations (Educational), Physics
Safadi, Rafi' – Physics Education, 2017
I examined the impact of a self-diagnosis activity on students' conceptual understanding and achievements in physics. This activity requires students to self-diagnose their solutions to problems that they have solved on their own--namely, to identify and explain their errors--and self-score them--that is, assign scores to their solutions--aided by…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Grade 8, Scientific Concepts
Stein, Hana; Galili, Igal – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015
Several researches in physics education have demonstrated the problematic status of teaching the subject of gravitation and weight and students' knowledge of these concepts. This paper presents findings of a study of students' knowledge following instruction within a changed conceptual framework of the weight concept in several 9th grade classes…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Education, Physics
Bar, Varda; Brosh, Yaffa; Sneider, Cary – Science Educator, 2016
Threshold concepts are essential ideas about the natural world that present either a barrier or a gateway to a deep understanding of science. Weight, mass, and gravity are threshold concepts that underpin students' abilities to understand important ideas in all fields of science, embodied in the performance expectations in the Next Generation…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Physics, Concept Formation, Science Instruction
Eshach, Haim – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
The aim of the current research is to characterize the conceptual flow processes occurring in whole-class dialogic discussions with a high level of interanimation; in the present case, of a high-school class learning about image creation on plane mirrors. Using detailed chains of interaction and conceptual flow discourse maps--both developed for…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Group Discussion, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods

Bar, Varda – Physics Education, 1989
Investigates whether elementary children can compare forces by comparing numbers of weights used in spring and balance problems. Reports that children did not identify weight and force, but they were able to use the ratio between the numbers of weights to compare forces. Suggests some instructional methods based on the findings. (YP)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science

Bar, Varda; Zinn, Barbara – Science and Education, 1998
Reports on research designed to discover whether certain conceptual difficulties experienced by present day students in the realm of action at a distance are parallel to the experiences of scientists in previous generations. Contains 60 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries

Zohar, Anat; Sela, David – International Journal of Science Education, 2003
Investigates gender issues in Israeli advanced placement physics classes. Analyzes matriculation exam scores from approximately 400 high schools over 12 years. Conducts semi-constructed interviews with 50 advanced placement physics students (25 girls and 25 boys). Discusses changes in the ratio of girls, performance, and factors that are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement Programs, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries

Finegold, M.; Gorsky, P. – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
The consistency, if any, with which force concepts are used by individual students in different, but closely related, contexts was investigated. A total of 534 university and high school students were tested to elicit their beliefs about the forces acting on various objects. Students' beliefs about the forces acting on objects at rest and in…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Context Effect

Galili, Igal; Lavrik, Valentina – Science Education, 1998
Investigates high school students' knowledge of natural phenomena related to the concept of light flux as it applies to the seasons and illumination after they studied optics. Discusses didactic, cognitive, and ontological perspectives in relation to specific changes in the science curriculum. Contains 71 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Concept Formation, Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries

Eckstein, Shulamith G.; Shemesh, Michal – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1993
A study (n=631) of children's ideas on motion of objects is reported. On three items of a four-part questionnaire, responses changed as the children matured, passing through distinct, successive stages with respect to their conceptual understanding. If teaching strategies to overcome misconceptions are to be effective, they must be appropriate to…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education

Feigenberg, Josef; Lavrik, Lea Valentina; Shunyakov, Vladimir – Science and Education, 2002
Addresses the problem of relating distance and scale by way of alternative models of perception taken from the history of science. Makes specific suggestions to broaden the scientifically-based actual activity zone of students. (Contains 19 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Educational Change

Bagno, Esther; Eylon, Bat-Sheva; Ganiel, Uri – American Journal of Physics, 2000
Describes the MAOF physics education program which is designed to relate large parts of mechanics and electromagnetism to each other via the key concepts of field and potential, while at the same time treat students' conceptual difficulties. Finds that students who studied with the MAOF program significantly improved their physics knowledge…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching
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