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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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Lower Undergraduate
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Education Foundations / Cognition
General Physics / Physics Education Research
Education Practices / Pedagogy
Relativity / Special Relativity
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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 progress in improving their ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.4.010107
An Investigation of Student Understanding of Basic Concepts in Special Relativity 
  
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Education Foundations / Alternative Conceptions
Relativity / Spacetime Fundamentals
Relativity / Miscellaneous
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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 persistent difficulties ...
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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Education Practices / Instructional Material Design
General Physics / Physics Education Research
Education Foundations / Assessment of Students
Relativity / Beyond Relativity
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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 relativity of simultaneity co-exist. ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1509420
A case study of conceptual change in special relativity: the influence of prior knowledge in learning 
  
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Education Foundations / Learning Theory
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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 understands complex subject matter ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0140528820040108

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