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Direct linkYaren Ulu; Sevda Yerdelen-Damar – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
This study aimed (i) to investigate how epistemic cognition in physics and metacognition, together with three dimensions of physics identity framework--recognition, physics self-efficacy, and interest-- predicted the overall physics identity of Turkish high school students and also (ii) to investigate gender differences in study constructs. A…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Physics, Science Education, Self Concept
Download full textGeorgia Vakarou; Georgios Stylos; Konstantinos T. Kotsis – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
To investigate students' interest in physics, this study explores the impact of a brief teaching intervention on the increase of interest. The intervention focused on modern physics, specifically exploring Einstein's theory of gravity and the dual nature of light. A total of 325 Greek students participated in the survey, comprising 83 students in…
Descriptors: Physics, Student Interests, Science Interests, Science Education
Dziob, Daniel; Górska, Urszula; Kolodziej, Tomasz; Cepic, Mojca – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
The Chain Experiment competition has been held successfully for 6 years in Poland and is attracting growing interest. The competition provides participants with a task that involves designing and constructing a contraption that is an element in a chain of events that are based on various physical phenomena. The contraptions are then linked…
Descriptors: Physics, Competition, Foreign Countries, Science Experiments
Rauno Neito; Elisa Vilhunen; Jari Lavonen; Kaido Reivelt – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2023
Enhancing interest in physics learning has been an important component of education policy and policy implementation for decades. However, in many countries, student interest in physics has not increased. The aim of this study was to predict situational interest using individual interest and the instructional activities students engaged in. Also,…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Science Interests, Physics, Secondary School Students
Paul Tschisgale; Anneke Steegh; Marcus Kubsch; Stefan Petersen; Knut Neumann – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Science competitions target students interested in science with the aim to support them in developing science competence and career aspirations. Contrary to the common belief that science competition participants are exceptionally competent and strongly motivated to pursue a science career, there is growing evidence that the entirety of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Competition, Cognitive Ability
Shlyonsky, Vadim – Physics Teacher, 2021
Physics teachers around the world are trying to create classroom environments that would allow life science students to be more intrinsically motivated in their work. These efforts include, among others, matching classroom activities to students' interests as well as structurally variable activities to match different student abilities. While…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Science Interests, Student Motivation
Testa, Italo; De Luca Picione, Raffaele; Scotti di Uccio, Umberto – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2022
The purpose of this study was to analyse Italian high school and university students' attitudes towards physics using the Semiotic Cultural Psychological Theory (SCPT). In the SCPT framework, attitudes represent how individuals interpret their experience through the mediation of "generalized meaning" with which they are identified. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, College Students, Student Attitudes
Johansson, Anders; Nyström, Anne-Sofie; Gonsalves, Allison J.; Danielsson, Anna T. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2023
Higher education physics has long been a field with a disproportionately skewed representation in terms of gender, class, and ethnicity. Responding to this challenge, this study explores the trajectories of "unexpected" (i.e., demographically under-represented) students into higher education physics. Based on timeline-guided life-history…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Gender Differences, Social Class
Preservice Physics Teachers' Development of Physics Identities: The Role of Multiple Representations
Munfaridah, Nuril; Avraamidou, Lucy; Goedhart, Martin – Research in Science Education, 2022
Identity-based research in physics education has been receiving increased attention in the past few years given the potential of identity in producing novel insights into the ways' students engage in physics. In this study, we examined the development of preservice physics teachers' physics identity through a specific instructional practice: a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Physics, Science Teachers, Foreign Countries
Cermik, Hulya; Kara, Izzet – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2020
The purpose of this study is to develop an up-to-date scale with high validity and reliability that could reveal the attitudes of high school students towards the physics course. In the process of developing the scale in question, three independent samples were formed, and the data obtained from a total of 1118 high school students were analyzed.…
Descriptors: Physics, High School Students, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Jones, Karen L.; Hamer, Jessica M. M. – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
Despite girls enjoying and being good at physics, the proportion of girls studying physics and going into physics related careers still lags behind that of boys. A large volume of research exists on the factors related to the uptake of girls into physics, however little research looks at the link between parents and their child's physics uptake.…
Descriptors: Females, Physics, Parent Attitudes, Aspiration
Aydin Gürler, Sümeyye; Baykara, Oktay – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2020
The aim of present research was to develop a Likert type scale that determines the attitudes of 9th grade students towards physics courses so as to identify the physics students' attitudes towards this course. The research started with a draft scale of 30 items. The draft scale was applied to 177 ninth grade students as a pilot research. According…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Attitude Measures, Student Attitudes, High School Students
Toli, Georgia; Kallery, Maria – Education Sciences, 2021
This paper presents an intervention aiming to promote students' learning by enhancing their interest in the concept of energy. Junior high school students' learning and interest is evaluated after engaging in activities on work and energy. The intervention integrated hands-on and simulated experiments included a structured series of guided…
Descriptors: Science Interests, Junior High School Students, Concept Teaching, Concept Formation
Upadyaya, Katja; Cumsille, Patricio; Avalos, Beatrice; Araneda, Sebastian; Lavonen, Jari; Salmela-Aro, Katariina – Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Situational engagement is a key element in promoting students' maintained interest and focused attention in learning. Most research on students engagement has been variable-centered, and only few studies have examined situational patterns of student engagement. The present study used person-oriented approach (e.g., latent profile analysis with…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
Salimpour, Saeed; Bartlett, Sophie; Fitzgerald, Michael T.; McKinnon, David H.; Cutts, K. Ross; James, C. Renee; Miller, Scott; Danaia, Lena; Hollow, Robert P.; Cabezon, Sergio; Faye, Michel; Tomita, Akihiko; Max, Charles; de Korte, Michael; Baudouin, Cyrille; Birkenbauma, Daina; Kallery, Maria; Anjos, Sara; Wu, Qixuan; Chu, Hye-eun; Slater, Eileen; Ortiz-Gil, Amelia – Research in Science Education, 2021
Astronomy is considered by many to be a gateway science owing to its ability to inspire curiosity in everyone irrespective of age, culture, or general inclination towards science. Currently, where there is a global push to get more students engaged in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, astronomy provides an invaluable conduit to…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies, Science Curriculum
