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Bachtiar, Rayendra Wahyu; Meulenbroeks, Ralph F. G.; van Joolingen, Wouter R. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2021
This article reports on a case study that aims to help students develop mechanistic reasoning through constructing a model based stop-motion animation of a physical phenomenon. Mechanistic reasoning is a valuable thinking strategy for students in trying to make sense of scientific phenomena. Ten ninth-grade students used stop-motion software to…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Grade 9, Physics, Science Process Skills
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Gette, Cody R.; Kryjevskaia, Mila; Stetzer, MacKenzie R.; Heron, Paula R. L. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
A growing body of scholarly work indicates that student performance on physics problems stems from many factors, including relevant conceptual understanding. However, in contexts in which significant conceptual difficulties have been documented via research, it can be difficult to pinpoint and isolate such factors because students' written and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Physics
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Russ, Rosemary S.; Odden, Tor Ole B. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Our field has long valued the goal of teaching students not just the facts of physics, but also the thinking and reasoning skills of professional physicists. The complexity inherent in scientific reasoning demands that we think carefully about how we conceptualize for ourselves, enact in our classes, and encourage in our students the relationship…
Descriptors: Physics, Evidence, Undergraduate Students, Scientific Concepts
Ali, Marlina; Talib, Corrienna-Abd; Hasniza Ibrahim, Nor; Surif, Johari; Halim Abdullah, Abdul – Online Submission, 2016
The purpose of this paper is to show how important "monitoring" is as metacognitive skills in solving physics problems in the field mechanics. Based on test scores, twenty one students were divided into two groups: more successful (MS) and less successful (LS) problem solvers. Students were allowed to think-aloud while they worked on…
Descriptors: Physics, Problem Solving, Metacognition, Thinking Skills
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Zwickl, Benjamin M.; Hu, Dehui; Finkelstein, Noah; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
We review and extend existing frameworks on modeling to develop a new framework that describes model-based reasoning in introductory and upper-division physics laboratories. Constructing and using models are core scientific practices that have gained significant attention within K-12 and higher education. Although modeling is a broadly applicable…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Laboratories, Models, Interviews
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Kösem, Sule Dönertas; Özdemir, Ömer Faruk – Science & Education, 2014
This study describes the possible variations of thought experiments in terms of their nature, purpose, and reasoning resources adopted during the solution of conceptual physics problems. A phenomenographic research approach was adopted for this study. Three groups of participants with varying levels of physics knowledge--low, medium, and high…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Phenomenology, Problem Solving
Rebello, Carina M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study explored the effects of alternative forms of argumentation on undergraduates' physics solutions in introductory calculus-based physics. A two-phase concurrent mixed methods design was employed to investigate relationships between undergraduates' written argumentation abilities, conceptual quality of problem solutions, as well…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Problem Solving
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Zeineddin, Ava; Abd-El-Khalick, Fouad – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2008
This study examined the impact of two epistemic commitments on the quality of college students' scientific reasoning in the domain of hydrostatics. These were the commitment to the consistency of theory with prior knowledge and commitment to the consistency of theory with evidence. Participants were 12 sophomore science majors enrolled in a large…
Descriptors: College Students, Protocol Analysis, Prior Learning, Science Process Skills