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Shuaishuai Mi; Tiantian Zong; Xiaojuan Yang; Weiling Gui – Science & Education, 2025
This study used structural topic models (STMs) to analyze physics pre-service teachers' conceptual understanding of scientific literacy. Participants included 126 physics pre-service teachers studying at Shandong Normal University in China. First, we used an open-ended questionnaire to collect the data. Second, STM was used to classify the data,…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Scientific Literacy
Paolo Bussotti – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2025
The problem here dealt with concerns physics education, and specifically the concept of force. The idea behind this research is that a historical approach to the teaching of such a notion is of great help for the students to fully understand the meaning of this basic physical magnitude. For, most of scientific concepts can be better grasped by the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Nguyen Duc Dat; Nguyen Van Bien; Simon Kraus – Science & Education, 2024
To be able to form and develop competencies with regard to the nature of science (NOS) for students, the teachers must have appropriate conceptions about NOS. Therefore, this study explored levels of conceptions about the nature of science of future physics teachers who have experienced two different physics teachers-education curricula using the…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Physics
Ndiaye, Yakhoub; Hérold, Jean-François; Chatoney, Marjolaine – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2022
Background: Many researchers have investigated student reasoning in Newtonian mechanics. In 1979 Viennot revealed that most students associate the concept of force with the velocity or acceleration of a motion. Forty years later, student understandings remain a major challenge for teachers. The implications of this challenge are still unclear,…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Science Teachers, STEM Education
Mustafa Hamalosmanoglu – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2024
This study focuses on exploring pre-service science teachers' conceptual integration understandings in explaining the subject of metabolism with the concepts of physics and chemistry. Action research was employed in this study. Nine pre-service science teachers taking the General Biology II course participated. Participants were taught metabolism…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Teacher Education Programs
Paulo Victor Santos Souza; Marta Máximo-Pereira; Ariane Baffa Lourenço – Science Education International, 2024
An alternative to insert history of science (HS) in teacher formation programs is the use of concept maps (CM), which may be very useful to represent the historical elaboration dimension of science concepts, laws, and principles. This paper presents the results of a study that identifies the conceptions of pre-service physics teachers about the…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Science History, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
Sakyiwaa Boateng; Sizwe J. C. Masuku – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2025
Electricity and magnetism are fundamental areas of physics and are integral to science curricula at various educational levels. However, this area has been reported to contain several concepts that students find challenging, leading to perspectives that diverge from scientifically accepted views. This study examines the errors made by physics…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Bezen, Sevim; Aykutlu, Isil; Bayrak, Celal – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2021
This study aims to determine pre-service teachers' conceptual understanding of black-body radiation. Designed as a qualitative study, it employed a case study design, which is one of the descriptive research methods. The study group consists of 18 pre-service physics teachers enrolled as seniors. An opinion form and a concept map were used as data…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Scientific Concepts, Radiation, Physics
Carpendale, Jared; Cooper, Rebecca – Physics Education, 2021
Contemporary views on physics education in high schools promote the need for students to develop their conceptual understanding about physics phenomena. However, teaching in this way requires specialized professional knowledge and for pre-service physics teachers, such knowledge needs to be scaffolded and developed. A strategy to support this…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Physics
Tomkelski, Mauri Luís; Baptista, Mónica; Richit, Adriana – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
The article analyses teachers' learning on the use of multiple representations (MRs) in the teaching of Ohm's law, examining them in a lesson study, structured in 18 meetings of 2.5 hours each, that addressed this physics curricular topic for the 3rd grade of high school. The qualitative research involved four teachers who teach physics in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Physics, High School Teachers
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
Sagdiç, Ali; Sahin, Elvan – Journal of Science Learning, 2023
An immense body of literature on astronomy studies has provided evidence that individuals perceive the lunar phases concept as difficult. Furthermore, many studies have shown erroneous explanations or alternative conceptions of lunar phases. However, there is also a need to understand how individuals construct an explanation of the Moon's phases.…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts
White, Gary; Sikorski, Tiffany-Rose; Landay, Justin; Ahmed, Maryam – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Limiting case analysis (LCA) is important to practicing physicists. Yet, there is little concrete guidance for physics educators, and a lack of consensus in the research community about how to help students learn, and learn from, limiting case analysis. In this study, we first review existing literature to find commonalities and variations in how…
Descriptors: Energy, Magnets, Physics, Science Education
Amssalu Wondmagegn Getu; Fikadu Edhetu Gashaw; Menberu Mengesha Woldemariam – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2024
The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of the Predict-Explain-Enact-Observe-Reflect (PEEOR) instructional strategy on general science students' conceptual understanding and motivation in the topic of motion and force. The research employed a pre-test post-test quasi-experimental design. The sample consisted of 107 general science summer, year…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Learning Motivation, Reflection
Ole, Faith Celeste B.; Gallos, Marilou R. – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2023
This study examined the effects of using the Feedback Loop Model (FLM) in Grade 12 Senior High School (SHS) Physics classes. Using a one-group pretest-posttest design, 58 students identified from a simple random sampling method were tested for their conceptual understanding and engagement with in kinematics. The results showed that students'…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Feedback (Response), Learner Engagement