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Saglam, Murat – Educational Research and Reviews, 2010
This study aimed to investigate the models that co-existed in students' cognitive structure to explain the interactions between electric charges and uniform magnetic fields. The sample consisted of 129 first-year civil engineering, geology and geophysics students from a large state university in western Turkey. The students answered five…
Descriptors: Cues, Physics, Geophysics, Geology
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Saglam, Murat – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2010
This study aims to explore problem-based learning (PBL) in conjunction with students' confidence in the basic ideas of electromagnetism and their motivational orientations and learning strategies. The 78 first-year geology and geophysics students followed a three-week PBL instruction in electromagnetism. The students' confidence was assessed…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Problem Based Learning, Diagnostic Tests, Student Motivation