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Burkholder, Eric; Salehi, Shima; Sackeyfio, Sarah; Mohamed-Hinds, Nicel; Wieman, Carl – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Introductory calculus-based mechanics ("Physics 1") is an important gateway course for students desiring to pursue a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career. A major challenge with this course is the large spread in the students' incoming physics preparation. This level of preparation is strongly predictive of a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Mechanics (Physics), STEM Education, Calculus
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Tong, Dazhen; Liu, Jia; Sun, Yechao; Liu, Qiaoyi; Zhang, Xiangqun; Pan, Sudong; Bao, Lei – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Work and mechanical energy is a fundamental topic in introductory physics. Studies in existing literature have shown that students have difficulties in understanding work and mechanical energy, particularly the topic of work-energy theorem. To study students' knowledge integration in learning work and mechanical energy, a conceptual framework…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
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Tong Tong; Feipeng Pi; Siyan Zheng; Yi Zhong; Xiaochun Lin; Yajun Wei – Research in Science Education, 2025
Students' success in physics problem-solving extends beyond conceptual knowledge of physics, relying significantly on their mathematics skills. Understanding the specific contributions of different mathematics skills to physics problem-solving can offer valuable insights for enhancing physics education. Yet such studies are rare, particularly at…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Physics, Problem Solving, Science Instruction
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Christoph Hoyer; Raimund Girwidz – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Vector fields are a highly abstract physical concept that is often taught using visualizations. Although vector representations are particularly suitable for visualizing quantitative data, they are often confusing, especially when describing real fields such as magnetic and electric fields, as the vector arrows can overlap. The present study…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Physics, Scientific Concepts
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Marcom, Guilherme Stecca; Villar, Renato Pacheco; Kleinke, Maurício Urban – Physics Education, 2022
Research on problem-solving strategies has been conducted since the 1940s. Experts and novices use different strategies in problem solving; the main difference is in the familiarity with which they face new problems. For multiple-choice problems, an analysis of distractors can provide possible clues about the resolution processes developed by…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, High Stakes Tests, Mechanics (Physics), Physics
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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
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Winarti; Ambaryani, Santi Eka; Putranta, Himawan – International Journal of Instruction, 2022
Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) is important to solve learning problems. This research aimed to determine the effect of the problem-solving based Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) strategy on simple harmonic motion material toward the metacognitive abilities of student's senior high school. This research applied a quasi-experimental method with a…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Problem Solving, High School Students
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Zeynep Dulger; Feral Ogan-Bekiroglu – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2024
In order to effectively learn physics, students need to be actively involved in problem solving. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between students' metacognitive awareness and their problem solving strategies in physics. Conceptual framework was based on Polya's problem solving strategies and Shraw and Dennison's…
Descriptors: Correlation, Metacognition, Problem Solving, Physics
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Uddin, Md Jama; Panda, Bhujendra Nath; Agarwal, Prakash Chandra – Physics Education, 2023
Enhancing the problem-solving skills of learners belonging to socio-economically disadvantaged groups is a great concern in general and particularly in the Indian context. Problem-solving skills are the most important skills of the 21st century for all learners to acquire necessary competencies. The main purpose of this work is to investigate the…
Descriptors: Identification, Error Correction, Grade 9, High School Students
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Febrina Siska Widyaningtyas; Mundilarto; Heru Kuswanto; Arif Rahman Aththibby; Ricka Tesi Muskania; Friska Octavia Rosa; Puardmi Damayanti; Bagus Endri Yanto – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
Integrating local culture in physics lessons may encourage the development of creative thinking and problem-solving skills. This research aims at examining the effectiveness of the implementation of the creative physics problem solving model based on the local culture of Yaaqowiyu (Cripics-Qu) to improve student's creative thinking and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Problem Solving, Cultural Influences
Stehle, Stephanie M. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Students come to their high school physics classroom with experiences and knowledge that can be used to help explain physics concepts, but those experiences may not fully align with the scientifically accepted science concept. When there is a misalignment between a student's prior knowledge and the scientifically accepted concept a misconception…
Descriptors: High School Students, Physics, Metacognition, Problem Solving
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Burkholder, Eric W.; Murillo-Gonzalez, Gabriel; Wieman, Carl – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Previous work has looked at the relationship between high school preparation and student performance in calculus-based introductory mechanics (physics 1) courses. Here, we extend that work to look at performance in introductory calculus-based electricity and magnetism (physics 2), and we look at the significance of what college math courses have…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses, Calculus
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Isidor Kokalari; Kosta Lili – Science Education International, 2025
Physics, even though it is guided by simple principles, tends for many topics to be obscured in the mathematics redundancy. MATLAB®, as interactive software for computer algebra, has already had an important impact on the way physics is taught by educators. It has also had a substantial impact on the way research is performed by students to…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Costu, Fatma – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2023
Several studies compared three different types of questions (conceptual, algorithmic, and graphical) across various topics, however, few focused specifically on gifted students. This study addressed this gap. The aim of the study, hence, was to determine whether there were notable differences in gifted students' performance in the three types of…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Concept Formation, Algorithms, Graphs
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Aneta Gacovska Barandovska; Boce Mitrevski; Lambe Barandovski – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
Problem-solving is an essential part of teaching, learning, and assessment of physics and mathematics. The continuing educational reforms have a deep impact on everyday teaching as well as working with talented students. In the Macedonian educational system, the curricula do not explicitly point out the connection between mathematics and physics,…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Optics
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