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Uchenna Kingsley Okeke; Sam Ramaila – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2025
This study analyses the effectiveness of directed vs. minimally directed inquiry-based instructional approaches in improving students' attitudes toward physics. It specifically compares the impacts of cognitively guided instructional strategy (CGIS) and Cubing instructional strategy (CIS) on student attitudes. Using a pretest--post-test…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Comparative Analysis, Student Attitudes, Physics
Christof Keebaugh; Emily Marshman; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
We discuss how research on student difficulties was used as a guide to develop, validate, and evaluate a Quantum Interactive Learning Tutorial (QuILT) to help students learn how to determine the completely symmetric bosonic or completely antisymmetric fermionic wave function and be able to compare and contrast them from the case when the particles…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Quantum Mechanics
Williams, Hollis – Physics Education, 2022
The Crookes radiometer (also known as a light mill) is a fascinating sunlight-powered device, in which a set of vanes is placed inside a glass bulb within which a partial vacuum has been pulled. The vanes then rotate when sunlight shines on the bulb. The reason for the turning of the vanes was subject to intense debate and many students still have…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Light, Measurement Equipment
Yajun Wei; Yi Zhong; Feipeng Pi – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Video instruction has been widely studied and is generally considered as effective as live instruction for teaching scientific concepts and procedures. However, there is limited research on the effectiveness of prerecorded videos for teaching more challenging content. This study conducted a controlled experiment on over 300 high school students to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Video Technology, Science Instruction
Delahay, Anita; Lovett, Marsha; Anderson, David; Sen, Surajit – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
The preparation gap [Salehi et al., Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 15, 020114 (2019)] refers to gaps in students' prior knowledge that can negatively affect their learning as they engage in introductory physics courses. To better characterize the gap, the current study distinguished the impact of various prior knowledge components on learning gains.…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Private Colleges, Calculus
Cross, Rod – Physics Education, 2021
The coefficient of restitution (COR) for a collision is usually a number between 0 and 1 depending on whether the collision is completely inelastic, or perfectly elastic or something in between. That is the usual situation for colliding spheres or a ball dropped on a horizontal surface. A different situation arises when a bat collides with a ball.…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Energy
Ibrahim, Bashirah; Ding, Lin – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
We investigate students' eye movements when they solve sequential and simultaneous synthesis physics problems. In sequential synthesis problems, multiple events occur chronologically, whereas in simultaneous synthesis problems, multiple events take place concurrently. We captured students' eye fixations on each problem diagram and recorded their…
Descriptors: Physics, Eye Movements, Science Instruction, Visual Aids
Luiza Vilarta Rodriguez; Jan T. van der Veen; Ton de Jong – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
In this study, we explore the use of analogies with classical physics in introductory quantum physics (QP) teaching. This work is part of a larger project in which a learning sequence covering three introductory QP topics was designed, tested, and evaluated in collaboration with high school teachers and physics education researchers. Based on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Multimedia Materials, Physics
Nyirahabimana, Pascasie; Minani, Evariste; Nduwingoma, Mathias; Kemeza, Imelda – LUMAT: International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education, 2022
A subject of physics includes various complex and sophisticated concepts that pose a challenge for both instructors to teach and students to grasp the clarity in the subject. Many researchers have discussed this challenge toward adopting an appropriate approach to teach physics in the institution. Therefore, the study reviews the research articles…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Teaching Methods, Physics, Science Instruction
Florian Budimaier; Martin Hopf – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Although there has been extensive research on students' understanding of the particulate nature of matter (PNM), there is still a lack of research on contexts that can be used to teach this challenging topic. In a previous design-based research study, the authors developed a teaching-learning sequence (TLS) on the PNM in the context of crystal…
Descriptors: Physics, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Science Instruction
Cross, Rod – Physics Education, 2020
The impact force and duration when one billiard ball collides head-on with another is estimated by assuming that the balls are connected by a spring. The results are compared with a measurement when a billiard ball collides with a heavy, rigid surface.
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Measurement
Biswas, Subhrajyoti – Physics Education, 2022
This article presents the study of Fourier series experimentally, using the "ExpEYES"-17 kit in a different way. This familiar undergraduate experiment has been performed for teaching online laboratory classes when face-to-face classes were not possible, due to the "COVID"-19 pandemic. We chose parabolic and sawtooth waveforms,…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Science Experiments
Schermerhorn, Benjamin P.; Corsiglia, Giaco; Sadaghiani, Homeyra; Passante, Gina; Pollock, Steven – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
We conducted a multiyear project across three institutions to develop an instructional tutorial that supports student understanding of change of basis in quantum mechanics. Building from our previous work, we identified learning goals to guide activity development. The tutorial makes an analogy between spin-1/2 states and a Cartesian coordinate…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Concept Formation, Quantum Mechanics
Cassandra A. Paul; David J. Webb – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
We have previously described the reformed introductory physics course, collaborative learning through active sense-making in physics (CLASP), for bioscience students at a large public research one university (Original University) and presented evidence that the course was more successful and more equitable than the course it replaced by several…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Disadvantaged
Tobin, R. G.; Lacy, Sara J.; Crissman, Sally – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Kinetic energy is usually the entry point for the study of energy in physics and is often perceived as unproblematic. We present evidence, however, that some learners who seem to have accepted the concept, from elementary school students to college physics majors and in-service teachers, nevertheless do not consistently attribute kinetic energy to…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation