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William D. Riihiluoma – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The ability to relate physical concepts and phenomena to multiple mathematical representations--and to move fluidly between these representations--is a critical outcome expected of physics instruction. In upper-division quantum mechanics, students must work with multiple symbolic notations, including some that they have not previously encountered.…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Science Instruction, Knowledge Level, College Students
González, Beatriz Adriana Rodríguez; Ibarra, Gabriela Noemí Figueroa; Barbosa, Omar Guirette; Muñoz, Héctor Antonio Durán – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022
There is a growing interest in conducting research in educational mathematics in the area of the didactics of probability, where the main difficulties that students have in understanding the concepts related to statistical inference have been revealed. For this research, the concept of the empirical rule and a practical application created by…
Descriptors: Probability, Statistics Education, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Education
Danri H. Delport – Numeracy, 2022
A strong foundation in early number concepts is crucial for students' future success in statistics. Despite its importance in statistics, many first-year students struggle to comprehend the normal distribution due to a lack of basic number sense. Students get confused about the order and magnitude of negative z-scores on a standard normal curve or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Statistics Education, Number Concepts
Passante, Gina; Kohnle, Antje – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
Time dependence is of fundamental importance for the description of quantum systems, but is particularly difficult for students to master. We describe the development and evaluation of a combined simulation-tutorial to support the development of visual understanding of time dependence in quantum mechanics. The associated interactive simulation…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Simulation, Quantum Mechanics
Inzunsa Cazares, Santiago – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
This article presents the results of a qualitative research with a group of 15 university students of social sciences on informal inferential reasoning developed in a computer environment on concepts involved in the confidence intervals. The results indicate that students developed a correct reasoning about sampling variability and visualized…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, College Students, Inferences, Logical Thinking
Fiedler, Daniela; Tröbst, Steffen; Harms, Ute – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2017
Students of all ages face severe conceptual difficulties regarding key aspects of evolution-- the central, unifying, and overarching theme in biology. Aspects strongly related to abstract "threshold" concepts like randomness and probability appear to pose particular difficulties. A further problem is the lack of an appropriate instrument…
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Probability, Evolution
Sadaghiani, Homeyra R.; Pollock, Steven J. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
As part of an ongoing investigation of students' learning in first semester upper-division quantum mechanics, we needed a high-quality conceptual assessment instrument for comparing outcomes of different curricular approaches. The process of developing such a tool started with converting a preliminary version of a 14-item open-ended quantum…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Quantum Mechanics, Mechanics (Physics), Multiple Choice Tests
Conley, Quincy – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Statistics is taught at every level of education, yet teachers often have to assume their students have no knowledge of statistics and start from scratch each time they set out to teach statistics. The motivation for this experimental study comes from interest in exploring educational applications of augmented reality (AR) delivered via mobile…
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Simulated Environment, Computer Simulation
Park, Eun Jung; Light, Gregory – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
Atomic theory or the nature of matter is a principal concept in science and science education. This has, however, been complicated by the difficulty students have in learning the concept and the subsequent construction of many alternative models. To understand better the conceptual barriers to learning atomic structure, this study explores the…
Descriptors: Models, Nuclear Physics, Scientific Concepts, Probability
Hardiman, Pamela Thibodeau; And Others – 1984
Protocols were obtained from 22 subjects as they discovered the conditions under which equilibrium is obtained on a balance beam by predicting and observing the outcomes of a series of problems. The interviews revealed that subjects used a variety of heuristics to make predictions once they had isolated the two relevant features of the problem,…
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Epistemology, Expectation