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Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research
How students learn from multiple contexts and definitions: Proper time as a coordination class 
  
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O. Levrini and A. diSessa, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 4 (1), 010107 (2008).
This article provides an empirical analysis of a single classroom episode in which students reveal difficulties with the concept of proper time in special relativity but slowly make…
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.4.010107
An Investigation of Student Understanding of Basic Concepts in Special Relativity 
  
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R. Scherr - Thesis
This dissertation reports on a systematic investigation of student understanding of the concepts of time and space in special relativity. During the investigation we have identified…
http://www.compadre.org/PER/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4773&DocID=213
American Journal of Physics
The challenge of changing deeply held student beliefs about the relativity of simultaneity 
  
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R. Scherr, P. Shaffer, and S. Vokos, Am. J. Phys., 70 (12), 1238-1248 (2002).
Previous research indicates that after standard instruction, students at all levels often construct a conceptual framework in which the ideas of absolute simultaneity and the…
http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1509420
International Journal of Science Education
Alternative Conceptions in Galilean Relativity: Inertial and Non-Inertial Observers 
  
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J. Ramadas, S. Barve, and A. Kumar, Int. J. Sci. Educ., 18 (5), 615-629.
This is one in a series of three papers in which undergraduate students in India were asked questions about transformations between different frames. Both kinematical and dynamical…
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950069960180509
International Journal of Science Education
Alternative conceptions in Galilean relativity: distance, time, energy, and laws 
  
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J. Ramadas, S. Barve, and A. Kumar, Int. J. Sci. Educ., 18 (4), 463-477.
This is one in a series of three papers in which undergraduate students in India were asked questions about transformations between different frames. Both kinematical and dynamical…
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950069960180405
European Journal of Science Education
A case study of conceptual change in special relativity: the influence of prior knowledge in learning 
  
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P. Hewson, Eur. J. Sci. Educ., 4 (1), 61-78.
Results of a case study (one graduate physics tutor) demonstrate that a person's conceptions, which include metaphysical commitments, play a significant role in the way s/he…
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0140528820040108
SEI: Upper-Division Electrodynamics (E&M 2) Course Materials 
  
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C. Baily, S. Pollock, and M. Dubson - Online Resource
This web site contains a complete suite of resources suitable for the second semester of an undergraduate electricity and magnetism class. The materials developed include a suite of…
http://www.colorado.edu/sei/departments/physics_3320.htm
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research
Probing students' understanding of some conceptual themes in general relativity 
  
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A. Bandyopadhyay and A. Kumar, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 6 (2), 020104 (2010).
This work is an attempt to see how physics undergraduates view the basic ideas of general relativity when they are exposed to the topic in a standard introductory course. Since the…
http://www.compadre.org/PER/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10758&DocID=2199
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research
How physics teachers approach innovation: An empirical study for reconstructing the appropriation path in the case of special relativity 
  
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A. Ambrosis and O. Levrini, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 6 (2), 020107 (2010).
This paper concerns an empirical study carried out with a group of high school physics teachers engaged in the Module on relativity of a Master course on the teaching of modern…
http://www.compadre.org/PER/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10756&DocID=2201
The Physics Teacher
The Twin Twin Paradox: Exploring Student Approaches to Understanding Relativistic Concepts 
  
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S. Cormier and R. Steinberg, Phys. Teach., 48 (9), 598-601 (2010).
A great deal has long been known about student difficulties connecting real-world experiences with what they are learning in their physics classes, making learning basic ideas of…
http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.3517026